I think it's a fantastic decision on DICEs part. Bot farming shouldn't be a thing and it totally ruins the sense of accomplishment. There's no point whatsoever in having a progression system if you can do it on easy mode in a couple of days.
A system like that would result in the same people crying about that it's to hard, start moaning about that there's nothing to do in the game.
I'm not trying to be rude but if multiplayer isn't your thing there's multiple better options. If you want a chill experience and unlock stuff. Battlefield is a multiplayer game and always has been.
You're ignorant about the matter as your post clearly indicates.
Firstly, do you really understand what MP even means? Apparently not, because MP does not automatically mean that a game is competitive in nature. There are lots of MP games which are either PvE or not inherently competitive.
Secondly, PvE has been in the franchise from the very beginning including BF1942, BF2, BF2142, BF2042, BF6 (until they removed it 2 weeks after release) so to say that the franchise has, always and only, been a competitive game indicates to me that you have no idea what you're saying.
Thirdly, nobody with any sense of rhyme or reason is asking for bot farms to be allowed. The fact is, that the removal of PvE has nothing to do with bot farming to begin with...we know this due to the fact that even Dice's verified game mode servers had PvE completely removed. Being Verified means that there was no cheating involved on those servers (i.e., no bot farms).
...and this is all we want...for the Verified Game modes in Portal, where the modes cannot be edited in such a way to take advantage, can once again have the legit use of bots restored as it was when the game first released, and as it is in a similar fashion to BF2042.
