Hmmm I found the Street Fighter incident (naughty naughty lol) but couldnt find anything about GoW?
EA did a similar thing with Mass Effects day 1 dlc too. Im still not at all convinced that these first DLCs were completed pre-launch though. Its all too... placeholder-ish...
Honestly, if anything was genuinely cut for resale, I believe hand on heart that Activision would have ensured Bungie buried any hint of it so deep that no-one would have had the first clue.
This is an enormous company we're talking about, these are smart people. They arent a 2-bit pub like Capcom. I cant for a second believe that they'd leave themselves so open.
Now, if we're talking about merciless adherence to deadlines (which is NEVER a good thing in creative ventures) then they are guilty as all sin 😁