You say "punished" as though Relic were going out of their way to spank you on the bottom for winning the game. Perhaps you view punishment in comparison to the way you've played the original for 7 years...but this isn't a remake of the original. It's a new game...it's a different game. It's not going to be the same and I wouldn't want to buy it if it had all the same mechanics of the original. I didn't feel like I was ever being "punished" during my winning matches in the beta...
What if Battlefield 4 beta has:
-no ballistics, bullets instantly arrive at targets with no drop similar to Star Wars lasers
-pistols 1 shot kill anything closer than 75 meters
-there are no player controlled aircraft, AI controlled CAS comes after killstreaks
-only players using some sort of crew specialist class can operate tanks and LAVs
-indirect fire kills anything within 100 meters
-shrapnel can potentially kill someone 400 meters away from the explosion
-engineers can lay mine fields which can only be detected and slowly defused by other engineers
but THAT would be ok since it is a new game, right?!