No Faith in Dice or BF6

As a console player I am also fully on board for an opt-in rather than an opt-out when it comes to crossplay. The first signs are not positive though as Labs is also forcing people to keep crossplay turned on. Maybe this is due to not having a big community playingtesting yet, but it's the same status BF2042 is in currently. 

All my friends are with me on PS5 as I've been playing with them for years, starting well before crossplay even existed. I've been playing multiplayer games for more than 20 years without crossplay, so for me crossplay is a solution to a problem that never existed to begin with. The OG BF community, whether on PC or on console, grew up and thrived without crossplay. 

Speaking of the BF community, yes a lot of them left, and not just PC players. Me and my friends used to be in a clan with console players playing BFV actively. The clan basically died because no-one of them picked up BF2042, and this was not due to crossplay but to delivery of an unfinished product that did not pay heritage to the classic BF formula. Even me and my friends skipped the launch and only picked up the game half a year later when it was at a discount and some improvements were made.

Although they will never admit it I believe the true reason behind crossplay is a cost driven -> profit maximizing. Having most of the community on the same servers ultimately requires less servers overall.
Of course this is just pure speculation from my side, as is your statement about console players getting priority with hit registration. I play on PS5 with crossplay off, I also play with low input lag (console is hardwired to my glassfiber optic network, and my ping is always low) and I still experience the same as you, single frame deaths, hits not registring, dying behind cover etc.

I agree with  ElliotLH​  that it won't be possible to ever get a balanced experience with crossplay in a competitive and input dependent game like FPS. There simply are just too many differing variables that need to be leveled to ever get it right.

I started my carreer with Battlefield 1942 on PC, and not having a leveled playing field was exactly the reason for me to move to consoles. Back then I just had my first job fresh out of college, so I was gaming on a budget. Not having the money to buy the fastest gamingperipherals or constantly upgrade my PC to the latest specs eventually drove me to console gaming to eliminate any variables as much as possible
Now 23 years later I have sufficient money to get me the best of the best PC gear and keep it updated, however I also have a family now, so life priorities have changed a little 😄
On top of that the issues like cheating and hacking that come with PC gaming, add to my motivation to stay on console, although unfortunately these issues start to appear there as well now with people using input devices to gain unfair advantages.

For EA/Dice the key with the next game is to return to the original Battlefield format with not too many bugs and gliches. By doing this the launch of next game should be more succesful than BF2042, ultimately leading to a big enough player base and player retention to keep platforms seperated. More players -> more money -> additional servers pay for theselves. We've all been playing battlefield, disregarding on which platform, without crossplay until BF2042. Why solve an issue that never existed to begin with?