Portal always had a Harcore preset toggle from what I can remember - It's a few extra clicks, sure, but it was pretty easy to also get full progression too, you just had to disable bots
I agree 100% that a few extra clicks should not be a problem. My only thought is they will have plenty of people who are either oblivious to the fact that this can occur or who feel like it's "too much work" (for lack of a better description) who will stop supporting the game. And as more and more those people stop supporting the game, the studio may see that as, "our fan base wants XYZ more than hardcore because the player base isn't there..." And starts drifting from the core values that makes BF what it is and starts changing it into a clone of other games, like COD.
This is just my thought on the matter, and I would very much like this franchise to not only survive but thrive because I have hours and hours of fond memories from playing this franchise over the past 20 years and would love hours and hours more, over the next 20 years!
