Hardcore mode issues

Im currently having 3 issues with hardcore mode that are making me want to refund the game.

1. No vehicle optic crosshair. If you are driving a tank you only get a crosshair in the gun sight if you zoom in. If you are gunning you have no crosshair in the vehicle sight at all. Same goes for the Helicopter pilot and gunner seat except when you zoom with these vehicle optics you still get no recticle. Its impossible to know where you are aiming and I imagine this is a bug and not intentional. 

2.Squad Spawn type is incorrect. 

When using the default hardcore portal settings that 99% of the servers are running the squad spawn type is set to Squadmates on leader, Leader None instead of Squadmates on leader, Leader All. This means if you join with a friend and they are in a tank that has an open gunner seat or a heli with an open gunner seat this is no way to spawn on them if you are SL. It keeps putting me in a squad of 2 with my one friend and there is no way for me to spawn in on him. BF3 and BF4 had Squadmates spawning on leader only and the leader could spawn on any of them. Im not sure why they made this change but it ruins the teamplay function for me. I imagine they made this change to force the assualt to act like a squad leader with the spawn beacon similar to hell let loose and rising storm 2. It should be changed back to how it was in BF3 and BF4.

3. Not able to quickly mark objectives for the squad by pressing q. You have to hold Q and use the commo rose to select it from a list, can no longer aim down the sights at the flag and just tap Q. Works fine in normal mode so I imagine its some setting in portal but I have no idea what one it is or why they did that.