Games are just full of A.I., cutting down wait times is just an excuse for low player base.
A.I. hardly take damage and just don't act right. The A.I. spawn out your rear end (around a corner) more or less, no team, no movement, the A.I. just shoots and kills me then stands there like a statue. It's just a sad game overall.
I've been playing multi shooters since GOD knows when. You think it would get better with technology but every year it gets worse and worse.
COD and Battlefield are both so messed up beyond the point of no return.

80k peak this weekend just on steam.
There's hundreds of thousands playing across all platforms every weekend.
The matchmaking is just awful.

Struggling to fill a match today. The matchmaking is atrocious when I get guys with 150+ ping and the sweaters too

I've played every Battlefield. The game always looks, sounds and runs great. My problem is the A.I., never seen anything like it in the past years. It's like how the old FIFA games cheat a goal at the last second. No chute noise, no movement noise, no team, no one else in that area of the map and it wasn't there before. The A.I. is all of a sudden just there where I am, shoots me, drops me and just stands there, I'm like humm.
Also a lot of these so called players have high rank numbers but they seem to have never played the game and never speak at all. Personally I think a lot of the players in the game are a con job by EA (A.I.). I'll be asking for help when downed and my team will walk right by and look into crates like I'm not there. Many times they will be searching crates or just standing there doing nothing even when warned of enemy in the area.
Between the cheaters and the A.I. I'm about to go back to single player games. Too bad because I really like the concept of the multi games. Not a fan of ADS or crossplay though.

It's the lack of official server browser and increase in game modes, not lack of players.

80k peak this weekend just on steam.
There's hundreds of thousands playing across all platforms every weekend.
The matchmaking is just awful.
Ya and instead of reworking their SBMM/EOMM biased matchmaking they prefer to remove 50% of the paid main game content to improve "matchmaking health" xD
Company full of clowns...