I dont think DICE knows what to do with snipers in general. They hate to have them in the game it seems, but cant also scrap the entire category of weapons (and the entire Recon class with it) either. And when they try to address the problem (taking Beacon away from Recon to avoid camping) they make things worse (since Assault can run and camp with sniper rifle and carbine and soon Beacon as well).
I made entire post about why Recon feels so weird in this BF, but TLDR: his kit (TUGS, C4, entire Specops subclass) tries to incentivize being closer to the action, but sniper rifle as his signature pushes the entire Recon class even further away from the action than in previous BFs (due to general killswitch on quickscoping though nanosecond TTK from ARs and carbines and SMGs).
