Portal features get turned off unintentionally (after toggling Hardcore?)

I made a semi-hardcore experience (hbe6) designed to have mostly all UI and game feedback intact other than the minimap.

With only the minimap toggled off I encountered various elements that were not working and which should have their own toggle anyway (THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN ASAP!). Not sure if this is just a bug or if tied to the minimap setting for some reason. 

What was not working:
-No kill feed on the upper right corner
-No crosshair hit indicator feedback
-Player names when pointing crosshairs on them nearby (only a dot is visible, with the result that you cannot identify who is near you)
-Missing soldier/vehicle health,
-in-vehicle soldier names and their positions

EDIT: Another post indicates this is because at one point hardcore was toggled on and some settings that fall under that toggle are remaining stuck off. 

Side Notes:

When groups of people joined at once, the bot backfill didn't even out the teams and the teams were often unbalanced because of that. (THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED ALSO)

And people can't switch teams of be moved around by admin so that is a huge annoyance. (FIX THIS ASAP, PLEASE!)

There really need to be way more UI and hardcore setting toggles available.

Fellow players, please feel free to add similar Portal bugs.