Can't play with friend in different country

So, I want to play Warzone with my friend in Ireland while I live in Australia.
The game won’t let me, claiming that one or more players have too high latency to the dedicated servers.

What the hell?!
I don’t recall seeing anywhere pre release that said that this sort of fireteam would be flat-out denied the ability to play together.
That’s extremely disappointing to say the least.

Is this actually an official thing? Is there some kind of option or fix or workaround for this?