Hello, The low resolution at launch issue is still on going even though it was reported to been fixed in this thread: Screen resolution is set to lowest setting every time I launch the game | EA For...
I've noticed that this issue (which just started affecting me in January) correlates with the depth of field having been ramped up in this latest update. I didn't even realise this game had depth of field until this bug started happening. If I was a gambling man I'd put money on whatever internal changes have been made to depth of field to get it to actually do something, are not properly recognised by the graphics menu and so it defaults to safe mode resolution, and a general bluriness.
This view of the city across the bay never used to look like this.