Don't be silly. If they make a new Battlefield that's 100% what people want, everybody will be back on board. As they should.
This.
The biggest reason why many see BF move such wild numbers is its a concept not many do or not many do to the level of BF. As a fan of the series myself, there is not fucking second, there is no other IP I can just go "well time to get my BF on" like Souls Copy cats or something, it means it turns into a take it or leave it type situation. Similar to Bethesda Fallout and Elder Scrolls series, bugs? Some Flops? Sure....you where the fuck you going for that exact same concept as some secondary? Exactly lol
So its hard to figure out if the issue is the complex design, or the publisher themselves, as if it was so easy, we would have been seen this concept copied to the T. I think its a mixture of a few things, BF sells lower then other FPS titles, thus not KING OF THE HILL type situation where anyone needs to copy them exactly, the Publisher depends on the team to do many projects, make lots of assets, engines etc for the whole company (as I never agreed with how the did that with Frostbite, let those teams us what ever engine they feel like it). So unless we get an extemely close second, I believe we'll continue to see the series yo yo like this similar to COD or AC title by title or something. AC Unity was not the end of AC, COD Inifite warfare was not the end of COD.
Them always doing some new concept allows for them to get new consumers, i get that people believe the series will be greatly impacted by the negative press, but I believe the sales will factor more to EA. Money talks, shit walks. If bad press alone determined if a series lived or died by this publisher, ironically we should have never gotten 2042. Wouldn't BFV historic low sales have stopped the series then? So who really knows when enough is enough with this publisher in terms of series or teams etc. One of the fastest selling BFs doesn't really sound like a massive series ending thing to EA, for all we know that shit gave them confidence the IP can live on with a new leader, only focusing on BF vs other IP etc. Who knows.