Also, Bungie made it very apparent that they were done with Halo. They sold the IP, they left Halo 3 with little to no reason to make a sequel, and their final entry for the franchise was Reach giving off the full circle feeling.

At least original Marathon was a fleshed out game. The new one looks half baked, still built off of their Blam! engine, and rushed out the door. There's at least one pattern I see: Bungie, a half baked game rushed to market to keep lights on, and an inability to communicate except through a marketing trailer that only spews toxic positivity about something that they won't let the wider audience touch to give their opinion in fears that it isn't as good as what they think it is because they are afraid of the criticisms they may face for their lack of creativity. This is not the same Bungie we came to know and love over the years. It is a shell of its former self. Sticking its fingers in their ears going 'la la la' because they don't want to listen to the people that kept them afloat all these years.