I can see that completely, and I think the downvotes came out in force yesterday because folks got a little tied up in my other comments which were designed to get that sort of perspective that you've just volunteered.
One of the examples I looked to throw out there last night was a scenario where I encourage the teams to do just that. Create a stack of true to WWII skins that provide and cater to that type of experience. However that would be 100% absent of the ability to control what the other 31 people on your team, and 32 on the opposing team have chosen to equip.
If I understand more about what people want, that helps prepare me for conversations later down the road.
My personal perspective on the scenario described here is that just making this type of content available wouldn't be enough to satisfy the people who care deeply about the games design. As soon as you leave pre-round, you never see yourself ever again, you only ever see other players, so I personally question the value of the change.
The suggestion is that adding simple skins that cater to folks who want them, would need to be even further supported by additional options that provides more control to the individual player about how every single other player is represented on the server. Based on peoples comments (and downvotes), that's evidently the preference here.
I can imagine how simple what it is the button needs to look like, the one that you'd want to be able to press somewhere in the Battlefield Options to enable such a thing on your client. But the actual systems and server tech required to action that click of the mouse, I can only imagine to be a massive huge stack of work for folks in order to achieve, meaning stopping progress on other needed changes, fixes, and improvements in order to deliver a cosmetic enhancement that caters to a core, but clearly passionate section of the Battlefield playerbase.
This is the sort of conversation I'm always happy to have with people. If it really is as simple as, just give me the personal option to do what I want with my solider, and I don't care that I'm still going to see 31 other people on my team who look different to me, I can work to find out more about what's coming and make suggestions about prioritization perhaps.
If it's a case of wanting more control, that's a much greater conversation and I'm going to need to have a lot more personal understanding to best represent you.
It the true issue is just a complete dissatisfaction with the direction that we've taken concerning Cosmetics/Factions, and the 6 months of content that has been produced, with a preference to see this 100% overhauled to your differing vision then we reach a much harder conversation that needs to be had with more folks than those who show up on Reddit. If we were to revert to a BF1 esque system of faction and limitation of the cosmetics, then we have to be considerate of a lot more people and their preferences.
There's around an another hour or so before I switch off for the weekend but I'll look to check back in on this thread later on.