I'm ok with the level of hald-holding, in say, Assassin's Creed platforming. It's easy as hell, but it fits the game and you can still die from a wrong jump, plus the game is about something else, not just platforming. The jumps themselves don't make you finish your target or get an answer from someone you need to interrogate or spy.
But i'm not ok with what we see in Battlefield 3. You press one button and the character deflects a knife, punches three times, rolls on the floor, dances the macarena and takes a sip of coffee (while disarming the bomb, which makes you achieve your mission). The fact those garbage segments are in-between extremelly directed you-can't-do-anything-but-exactly-what-we-want "gameplay", and i can't consider that shit a game at all. I'm rather play Dragon's Lair, which doesn't pretend to be anything but an interactive FMV.