Were your spawn limit on the gate at 0? If it was it means you cant spawn there anymore. Regardless if the gate is destroyed or not.
Spawn system just keeps getting worse. Defenders get screwed out of their spawn point before stuff's even capping, and usually you're a mile away. At best. I've spawned in lava, packed shipping containers on Torias, underneath approaching transports... One time I spawned inside a box on Medusa. Instead of trying to lower spawn times when you're dying in rapid succession, everyone gets tellyported back inta da foight! Zog dem fancy 'umie tellyportaz an' sparky Wub-ray Gates! All da gitz git Orky deployment!
Never experienced the death spawns but yeah it does need ironing out a bit. Still it is a lot better than it was. Before it was way too easy to rack up kills by just waiting for a large group to spawn at a certain spot and just insta gib them all with a grenade or plasma cannon shot. Was pretty much shooting fish in a barrel.