Why are private profiles a thing?

It lets you play Battlefield without your every move being publicly graded. No more subconscious pressure to perform for randoms, protect a K/D or worry that one bad session tanks your rep. You can just vibe without treating every match like it’s on display.

The “hiding cheaters” argument is pretty weak. Most cheaters get caught by anti-cheat systems anyway, not by randoms checking profiles. Private just means they’re opting out of the toxic stat-shaming culture. Cause they dont care about stats, they’re just havin fun.

Privacy exists so normal players can enjoy the game on their own terms your stats are yours alone. (It also starves the stat perverts who live in everyone else’s profile after every match lol)

Since you seem to care here's some of mine so far lol. 

Private profiles are a weird fantasy, and it's completely unfair to everybody else. Privacy creates all sorts of problems. One big problem that is 100% relevant to this game is that the worst cheaters often create private profiles making it impossible to track them and report them. No one should be expected to play against anonymous players. Privacy in gaming and sports should not be allowed. Not many sports teams let you sign up anonymously and hide your identity. I don't often see my favorite sports teams fielding a player called BrightError because they chose to be private.

Normal players do not need privacy; privacy isn't needed in any way.

And you already have a player id that isn't your real name. The whole point of the id is to allow people to identify you and your stats and it provides functionality like reporting and communicating. Things that are required by the game to make it fair.

The name thing is different from the profile and that is needed cause of toxic trolls who join ur game just to sabotage over n over.. its happened to me lol and it aint fun..
you can still open there names up on the scoreboard to see their real names and report them if it bothers ya that much etc 

With the new roadmap hiding stats wont matter you will be able to spectate and report loser cheats anyhow in the future.

Its exactly that, EA doesnt want people to know how many cheaters are actually in the game, so they allow private profiles because they know a large part of the cheater base with hide their stats because they dont want everyone else to see they have a 60 KD. 

just do what i do, report everyone with a private profile, sure not all of them are cheaters, but at least you are guaranteed to report those that are. I also report everyone with over a 2.5 KD.

Some people make their profiles private simply because it's none of your **bleep** business. Personally, I don't care, and mine is public, but I can see their logic.