Split-screen is down and needs to be revived

Playing a game on a couch (or wherever else you decide to sit, I won’t judge) with someone is the be-all and end-all of social experiences for gaming, so I was pretty excited at first to see it in the new Star Wars Battlefront. When I first heard EA was making a reboot/remake/rehash of Battlefront (a beloved game from my childhood if you want an indicator of how embarrassingly young I am) and it was going to include split-screen co-op, I was ready to buy it. The bad news for me was the split-screen was relegated to a wave-based survival mode that feels more like an afterthought than a part of the game.