I agree with all of this. There are many quality of life improvements that need to be made. To the portal experience.
Also, the portal options for custom games are not detailed enough to be able to make a hardcore server. Like remove cursor when not ADS but not from vehicles. I have tried to make a BF4 hardcore conquest style server (code 4zm6) and found that, using the hardcore slider isn't great (which is what the official hardcore servers use I believe) and manually toggling options is the best way, but still isn't perfect. Try out that code (you may have to host it) and see if you feel like it is a better hardcore version. That server filled up for a little of 48 hrs and had a full queue, but for some reason it went down and an error showed, "server can't be found" so I have yet to rehost it. I have been trying to find the right portal settings to get a hardcore server that the community likes to play, so then I can just share the experience code with everyone who wants to host one, and we have a more consistent experiences between the hardcore portal servers. I can share my settings for the portal experience as well so you can make changes to it as well. Hopefully if we can find the settings hardcore players like, we can share them and maybe EA will use those settings for their official portal servers.
The biggest gripe for me was the missing sights in vehicles, and that is what made me try out the portal route. Like, why would we not have sights on the attack chopper or a tank? Why would the red dot be missing from a sight?
