EA Incompetence ...

Totally agree ! I'm in the same boat. 

First thing that came to my mind, after reading your post is this: Looks like in trying to solve the problem, with not real solutions,  Battlefield Studios is back to square one. Then please, EA invest in servers (and better matchmaking for PvP games). Create enough server room that players can host their own verified Portal servers if they want to. That was promised ! Keep working on the reward systems. Make it more balanced. The absurd high challenges makes the use of those farms attractive. But I will stop here. Please restore the promised use of creating a verified Portal server with bots with full progression. It will not hurt the serious PvP players or "Imbalance" the game as some fear. In fact, that is not possible !

Only "incompetent" one is you for not playing multiplayer game vs other players. 

play a single player games if you want pve only, not BF6 and stop crying over nothing ! 

Welcome to EA where having QA is illegal.

agree with OP - the menu is weak & trying to create a custom experience is broken. 

Little boy, keep calm and stfu....

Go play for PVP mode and leave us PVE player alone.

The OP ist critising EA/DICE in general. Which is egit, because they ar failing and failing again.

And they never learn.

Once they removed the bots. Now the bring them back with max of 12 player a side. and minimum start level ? WTF is this decission?

Meanwhile: Millions of custom bot server, bots have no weapons, bot count = 64, minimum start = 1, etc....

And people are abusing the **bleep** out of it :D

EA / DICE is the worst camping company, they cant get sh*t done. Every decision they make is wors then the decision from before.

If you look at it statistically: They should at least sucedd one time. But they dont. Just failing and failing.

People move on to different games like ARC Raiders, oarkov is before its release.

And the whole ideal of portal, which is GREAT, become the pitfall.

This is just a shame.... the potential is huge!

People could build massive open maps like gulf of oman or what ever. And people will do!

But currently, everything is shadowed but the stupid design decision around weapon leveling ....

EA really needs to relax this xp **bleep**, i have a 8 v 8 portal and now no full xp what a load of boll ox

Bottom Line: Portal was advertised as a way to "play the way you want."  For me personally, I would not have purchased this title were it not for portal...just like I didn't buy CoD, or any other similar title.  I don't like them, because I don't like people.  I play games to GET AWAY from people.  So if you're going to have a multiplayer-only experience, that's fine, just advertise that's what it is.  Don't advertise a "play the way you want" experience & don't deliver on it.  If I could get a refund at this point I absolutely would.  This is a bait and switch plain and simple.