Edit: I just re-read the thread and saw you're in australia. I'm in the US so there's usually people in at least one of those playlists as I've played in them a number of times, but there's obviously not as many people to join those playlists in lesser populated regions...plus a lot of people don't even know those playlists are persistent lobbies so many people don't join. I do miss the server systems and browser from the older games like BF1. It was always easy to find a match and stay in one back then. Even now with BF1 having far less players these days, I can still go in the browser and find a handful of full servers to play in.
Yes, I understand exactly where you are coming from.
We have 3 BF4 servers in australia, and only 2 of them usually have people on a weekend, but they are active. So even with the playerbase being in the double digits, I still get more human being matches because of the legacy server system.
Instead of throwing me around empty lobbies, which i feel should be the last thing the game does if worse comes to worse.
