Part of the problem with uplinks is that as a concept, they are incredibly powerful.

A lot of games have deployable equipment that can allow a player to respawn at a point of their choosing. Dust is the only one I've played that allows your whole team to use them too. It's like allowing a meta 1 frigate in Eve to drop Cyno's where ever they want.

They've also negated the need for vehicle transport, an important and completely wasted opportunity to give vehicles another role in the game. Why should CCP devekop a Medium Light Troop Transport for the game when a speed tanked scout can get most, if not all of your team there much quicker?

It's also by now an established legacy tactic after two years to use these OP Deployables as a Dust equivilant of the Eve Blob, a very efficient and effective means to win. Which is why players can get a little heated about possible change. We've seen that many, many times on these here forums.

As much as I would personally like to, we can't just remove them from the game outright. But they do need curtailing a little.

Now my own personal preferance is the Spawn Grenade idea, where only 1 or 2 spawns would be allowed to happen on each link but the logi could carry a lot of them, meaning they become less drop and forget and have to actively managed instead, keeping the tourists out of logi work.

#1 is somewhat subjective how many "a lot" of something is has a deeply contextual element and what it is contrasted with matters fundamentally. For my ISK spawn camping is far too plentiful within Dust 514 even in the current game state and further bottle-necking possible spawn locations without first being able to prevent a further spike in the negative behavior of spawn camping is not a positive step for the health of the game. I would rather see more spawn options than less; the addition of possible sky spawns, the improvement of CRUs, and mCRUs etc.