Partially disagree, with a free loadout you are fucked a lot of times unless you don't encounter anyone, you can barely kill like 1-2 type of enemies if you get the pistols instead of the automatic rifle (and with that one the count goes up to 3 enemies, not 10) and you have no shield recharge, you are fucked after a single gunfight if they hit you a bit and you can't manage to find better equipment FAST, and that is not under your control because of rng.
It sound smart on paper and it's surely better than not having the option at all, but it is faaaaaar from optimal or easy or fun to run around with absolute turd tier equipment in a game with such aggressive and tanky enemies.
And no matter how good you do during the match, there is always an extremely high chance of getting fucked by a camper or a group waiting at the extraction point because this seems to be what a lot of people who play these games do to get loot instead of actually playing the game, and you are not gonna win any fight with shitty weapons and equipment if you are not the one shooting first in this game, ttk is very low, and you never shot first when they ambush you at the extraction for obvious reasons.
Being killed at the extraction point is literally a matter of luck, you can't predict or check everything around you while you run to salvation, you literally, physically can't predict from where they are gonna shot you.
And like i said, any instance of dead by pvp can make you rage for a bit in any other deathmatch game because you don't lose shit, in here when you get fucked by unavoidable pvp shanenigans, you lose everything or almost everything, and from the 30 matches i played, being ambushed at the extraction happen like 80% of times...