It's all making sense now.
This is just a theory, but I believe the puzzles are starting to fit in place now. Please hear me out.
With the quest to make more money, Ubisoft looked to the C.O.D franchise model as their ticket to do this. The big elephant in the room was the MP IGE. Farcry players created their own downloadable maps to play on, whereas C.O.D players paid for theirs thru downloadable content. So prior to FC3, executives were brainstorming ways to stop this. They couldn't just stop the MP IGE for FC3, that would be too obvious. The best way to do this was to cause frustration/attitudes toward the MP IGE. What better way to do this than create a broken lobby system for FC3 and then pretend to try to fix things. You don't go from a great lobby system (FC2) to a broken one, without having a motive to do this. Now that the mapping community as become frustrated/fractured, the MP IGE will get abandoned. The plan worked beautifully. Now instead of doing something drastic (taking something away that worked great in FC2), they now have "data" to back up their decision to not include the MP IGE in FC4. The "data" shows that the MP IGE was not popular said the developer of the IGE. The proof is in the "created data". Now the door is open for the DLC. Gamers of multiplayer will say, "I'm tried of playing on the same maps!" No problem, for $$ you can download new maps for the game. C.O.D here we come!
I hope I'm proven wrong, I really do love the FC series! There's a lot of people out there that doesn't want to leave, but are at the tipping point now. GTAV or some other games could easily tap into your base of fans (mappers/players) and give us what we want. Please prove my theory wrong and let the good times roll again.