People who don't mind the extra customization options, and point out that previous entries in the series have always taken liberties with historical accuracy for various reasons.
The game fanbase can be divided into 3 groups, the reason being the various controversy the game is engulfed in prior to launch.
SMGs would eventually be buffed in the Dec 4th update, but they still struggle outside of close range firefights, and still do get outperformed at times even within that range. While this is a choice of class preference, medic is considerably harder to play now that the class is given a weak SMG that can't shoot farther than 40 meters, making it a class one can only use in covered areas and under team support, where in Battlefield 1 the medic had a semi-automatic that can easily shoot higher than 100m. In fact, it was very common to see bombers topping the scoreboards before the Dec 4th update, when they received a nerf.
The JU-88 and other bombers are hated on by most of the community because of spawn camping that would happen just after a game starts, although this has been remedied with delayed plane spawns on most maps.
Broken Base: Quite a few weapons and vehicles have a very polarized fanbase either loving it or hating it, not limited to.
Both of the initial Pacific maps have been recieved very warmly by the community, but Iwo Jima in particular has been showered in near-universal love, with the Breakthrough mode in particular becoming a swift fan favorite on the map, with SIX sectors, the most of any map in the game, spread across its massive size (roughly 70% of the size of the real life Iwo Jima, and the largest map in the game by playable area note not counting the Firestorm-exclusive Halvøy) and the combination of infantry, ground vehicle and air vehicle combat as well as the amphibious beach landing that starts the first sector and the climbing of the iconic Mount Suribachi to end the last sector.
Not only do players get to command the legendary Tiger tank, but the story is also praised for having genuinely tragic story and characters shown from the unique perspective of a villainous German tank crew coming to grips with their hopelessness.
The war story The Last Tiger is considered to be the best single player mission.