Yes. There is no higher point. Both my team mates stop and the girl says you have to jump across. I even tried shooting some wood boards on top of the ledge I am jumping from and tried to use them to extend the platform to be able to get a few extra inches to jump from, but they just fall down when you step on them due to the physics engine.
I tried different graphics setting to see if lag or something might be making it look like im jumping from the furthest point, but even with the lowest graphics setting I get the same result.
I also have this game loaded on two computers and get the same result from both of them.
There are a bunch of other people on forums that you can find from google by typing "cant jump the scaffolding in battlefield 4" and they are all having the same problem.
It appears the fact that there is no special action button with regards to ladders, is causing more than just this problem. In an earlier mission you need to climb down a ladder from a rooftop while trying to find "VIP's" and there is no way to grab ahold of it to climb down. Going up a ladder is no problem (with the exception of the scaffolding issue) because just walking toward it causes you to climb it, however as in the VIP mission, when you are presented with a ladder that goes down the side of a building, all you do is walk off the building as you walk toward it. In this mission people are dying falling off the ladder and the checkpoint is reached causing you to spawn across the field while your group "NPC's" remain on top of the building you just died falling off of. This forces them to backtrack to where the NPC's are to make them "engage" and begin to follow you again.
I am not a moron and this is clearly a game issue that a lot of people are stuck on, and it seems the EA devs are currently ignoring it.