This is modern creators in a nutshell. It's the same in cinema, comics and videogames, a bunch of talentless pretenders who disrespect the works of actual creators.
What’s interesting is that from technical perspective the game seems quite competent.
So basically you had actually competent programmers working on this game with hacks on director, producer and writing teams.
Heck, Even environmental design seemed to have been decent. If higher ups at EA had any sort of sanity they would have fired the hacks and left the actual technical people to work on other titles.