How Frostbite Ruined BioWare

Seems like the dev team had a habit of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak.

What do you mean? They didn't throw away those engines, just upgraded them and gave them different names.

No.

Problem was BioWare had to re-design Frostbite engine from scratch with each game they developed, as DAI, ME:A and Anthem are way too drastically different games for them to depend on the same code.

Due to lack of support from EA with Frostbite itself, BioWare devs had to figure all of it by themselves.

Lol "specialized engine" that's the best part because even BF3 and BF4 were buggy messes and Frosbite was created specifically for that series lmao. That being said I don't put the blame entirely on the engine, it's very cleary that Bioware has a serious management problem, after all they had to be told by a exec to keep the flying mechanic in their game! "More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind." Bioware's management couldn't even make up their minds about a feature in their game that most people were looking forward to.

Frostbite is not so good for faces imo. At least not what I've seen from Bioware. There's some degree of plastic or clay face going on. There is something off in general. Very colorful environments that can look stunning but it's all so... smooth? It was OK for a fantasy game like DAI but it's too clean a look for my liking.
I like faces better in pretty much any other engine even if the animations aren't always the best. I prefer slightly frozen faces but a realistic look to over-animated clay faces.

Days Gone looks good but the framerate is choppy is hell

You forget about sound and netcode ;-)

Hair is definitely something Frostbite struggles with, at least from what I've seen in DAI, MEA, and Anthem. Also I dunno whether it's me or not, but enemies in these games tend to look their very far away, like ants, if that makes any sense.

I think Bioware's problem is far greater than Frostbite.

Current Bioware isn't capable of concretizing an idea and bringing it to tangible fruition.

5 years of chaos culminating in a lot of money being wasted and bringing nothing to the table!!!???
Producing such a nothingness is realizable because they are embedded within EA.

Clearly, Bioware isn't the Bioware of yesteryear. Common sense alone demands to close Bioware down.

Personally, I hope they can make Dragon Age 4 because I would like to continue after DAI cliffhanger.
However, it won't be a préorder like it used to be. I simply don't trust them delivering anything playable anymore.

Can't tell how it is now, but the bulk of DICE's development  - and then also Frostbite - was located in Sweden at the time. The Frostbite know-how was where it needed to be for Battlefield's sake. And it's not an easy task to transfer such knowledge to another person, especially not if both departments are knee-deep in development. My guess is that EA/DICE were too naive in estimating the amount of support needed to use Frostbite for other games than Battlefield.