User blog comment:Redkite/Problems I felt with the singleplayer, did you?/@comment-2224289-20120723181413/@comment-1990578-20120725061501

Yeah, but EA wanted to take down CoD way too much. And to do that, they looked at their competition that had a Michael Bay-esque ridiculous campaign, and they wanted DICE to emulate that model. Probably the same reason why co-op exists, as Spec Ops isn't much different in MW2 IMO.