Is COD and Activision going back to it’s roots?

Something happened to COD around 2014, the franchise that placed its players in modern war engagements suddenly became a future shooter! The whole antigrav jumps and the many laser based fighting tools it looks like Activision is finally done and dusted with the setting. After three instalments and the bomb that was Infinite Warfare the trigger has been pulled with COD now going back to its roots.