It's not ironic, I can help you out there.
People play multiplayer to either play against other humans like you, with other humans, or with and against other humans.
The point of multiplayer for everyone is to have fun.
Those like you only enjoy measuring your skill against others in a game like this. Other people enjoy playing with their friends, against others for the same reason as you, or against bots for a more relaxed game. Bots absolutely have a place is multiplayer, just not your multiplayer environments, but no one is trying to force you to play against bots. Difficulty is what gives your progression meaning, not everyones.
If progression meant increasing your level and unlocking cosmetics(to flex or whatever), and improving your stats like k/d, I'd agree with you.
Unfortunately weapon attachments(and to a lesser extend weapons/gadgets), make a massive different in weapon strength, and if everyone isn't on an even playing field, it is literally not fair. It should be skill vs skill, gear power shouldn't come into it in BF.
I agree with your points for stats, but not for attachment unlocks. If everyone in your games got their weapons/attachments from farming bots, how is that bad for you? Someone playing bots doesn't affect your matches.
I can see you hate bots, but I don't understand why others liking playing against bots affects your game at all. It's not cheating, it was literally advertised as a feature for the game.
You must of really enjoyed bf3 to bf5.
