Legit, I also pretty much exclusively play battlefield to play aggressive recon in breakthrough and rush. It gives me the ability to go deep behind the lines, and take out tanks and other vital targets.
Now I have to rely on a squad mate putting a beacon down, which assault players will be to focussed on the front line to want to flank and not shoot at someone. They should have kept the medic role. Surely the back of map sitting snipers is such a minority it's a non issues as i've won just as many games with useless snipers on a hill as I have with useful ones.
Dice please keep the beacon on recon or at least make both classes get it, as you did with C4 for support and recon in BF4. This decision really kinda making me reconsider buying the game. I the best fun in battlefield in years in the beta playing aggressive recon with beacon like I did in BF4.