Portal in Battlefield 2042 was completely unusable due to the number of exp grind/bot farm/achievement servers. It had the same global server quota hosting issue, because everyone was just starting a server for a solo experience. You couldn't even find normal games anymore.
They've invested heavily in portal, so I don't blame them for making sure it remains accessible for the people that actually want to play against others.
It never used to until it got close to time for BF6 coming out. Then I started to see a lot of the server quota issues. I assumed it was for them pulling resources from it in preparation for BF6. Was unaware of grinders. Now makes sense.
