Apparently not, as EA learnt their lesson with Battlefront 2.
Looks like you were right. No lootboxes and cosmetic only micros, basically titanfall 2's model.
EA appear to be dammed no matter what they do, trailers comments section is full of BS about having 1 armed women in it and the like,
I don't care,
same as i didnt care when they were demanding women playable chrs in BF4/hardline.
People just like to be outraged.
Frankly the BS takes away from things that you should be angry about like SWBFII's random pay to win progress,
Angry and badly done by seems to be the default position on everything these days.
I like the look of some of the changes and will be happy to give it a try, I got bored with BF1 way quicker than any other BF game (excluding hardline which is the only one i never bought) and even then i got my moneys worth out if it and racked up some good hours playing. definitely worth a punt.