Battlefield 1: is it wrong to set a war game in the trenches of the first world war?

We are comfortable with a cartoon portrayal of Allies versus Nazis. It's not much worse to gamify the Great War

The first world war may not be the most obvious time period in which to set a team-based first-person shooter with a heavy emphasis on vehicular combat.

The pointless slaughter of trench warfare, with lines of enlisted men marching slowly towards machine guns that mowed them down by the thousands, all to gain or lose mere feet of frontline, isn't exactly a "fun" scenario.