I don't like the term "rocket spam." I don't like people who say "rocket spam." Let me explain why.

Rockets are an integral part of Battlefield 2142. They are the optimum solution to taking out infantry at 20+ meters, behind cover.

I suspect that people say "rocket spam" because they believe rockets require less skill, than, say, shooting someone with an AR. I suspect that they get this notion from real life or other games.

The problem here is that BF2142 presents a unique reality: rockets do exist here, and they are the optimum solution to some problems. Refusing to adapt to that, refusing to embrace rockets, means refusing to embrace the optimum solution to a problem. It's a refusal to adapt, to evolve.

This is why I dislike people who say things like "rocket spam" -- they refuse to evolve and to adapt to what's given to them. It's no different from people who will blame their team, other squads, other medics, and most everyone else before they'll say "yeah, that was my fault. I shouldn't have been there."

In terms of this game, and most any other human engagement, I believe the chief way of judging "fitness" of a person is their ability to quickly and efficiently adapt to a changing set of circumstances. Headshotting people is the optimum way to play CS -- adapt. Aim better.
Rockets at 25m behind cover is the optimum way in BF2142 -- adapt. Pack rockets, practice using them, and become better at that facet of this reality.

This is, in my opinion, the problem at its most basic: BF2142 offers a different set of circumstances from other games, and people don't like change. They don't like evolving, adapting, and growing to embrace possibilites. They'd much rather label them as "skill-less" or "cheap".

There's a quote I've loved -- "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
What do you think happened to those poor souls 1000s of years ago who first encountered molten metal weapons and said: "Screw those bronze spammers. I'm a wooden-club-and-sharpened-rock purist."

Those bastards got cut down. Their children don't walk the Earth.

BF2142 presents a unique reality. The attitude necessary when walking into something foreign should be "what can I learn from this? How can I best adapt to what's given to me?" and not "I know what's best, I decide what's skill and what's spam."