I'm experiencing the same thing mate, you're not alone in that.
This game and been plagued with issues which the developers are working very hard to fix, but unfortunately for us, there is a fundamental vision that doesn't align with the "Original" player base and they are determined to stay the course.
These forums along with others have been yelling the same issues again and again for specific features such as persistent servers and active games showing in a server browser, larger maps so on so on.
End of the day .. the developers are "Listening" in my opinion to save face and create a false front to retain players when really they haven't even targeted or mentioned any of the features requested from previous games.
That's because they have this system in place and they don't want to deviate. But what do we know? we're just the customer after all...just not the right demographic anymore.
They want attention addicted kids who like shiny things for a price.