If the goal is to keep lowering the skill gap to cater for casuals, then sure, it’s great.
No one I know that plays feels like they were ‘out played’ by random grenade spam.
It satisfies the needs of the playerbase who struggle to perform with more skilled players, it drives players devoting their gametime to getting better away from the game.
If you want to see the net effect of lowering the skill gap has on a franchise like this, come back to it in another 12 months if this trend is not addressed immediately.
There’s a reason why the player participation rate in Battlefield 1 is already dropping sharply and gamers are heading back to Battlefield 4.
Battlefield 1 is a beautiful vacuum. It’s get fantastic visuals and some of the most shallow gameplay ever seen in a Battlefield game.