343 staff don't know how to write good stories so they resort to cheap shock value retcons to sell their shit.
Rookie? Killed in a novel.
Didact? Resurrected and killed in a novel.
Cortana? Resurrected and died off-screen.
Brohammer's family? Not even his.
Retcon everything (chronologically) after Halo 3. Chief is still asleep on the Dawn.
Have the rest of the series be a bunch of smaller scale stories about how the galaxy is adapting to a world where we are no longer at war (but also aren’t exactly at peace) with the aliens instead of just rebooting the war for no reason.
Hell, imagine a story about the everyday person having to put up with alien refugees living amongst them after years of them massacring their friends & families…. 343 could actually explore some mature & morally grey subject matter that people keep pretending they did in Halo 4
"For Amuro, whose life included the military sending him a woman a couple times a week, it was an overwhelming scene. And even then, he never saw the same woman twice. It was a reflection of the insidiousness of the Federation bureaucracy." - Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Novelization
Thanks to multiculturalism:
London is a shithole
Paris is a shithole
Berlin is a shithole
Amsterdam is a shithole
Vienna is a shithole
Barcelona is a shithole
Madrid is a shithole
Maturing is realising that absolutely nothing of substance is happening here.
A false pressure valve is being released, to reset public anger so as to buy additional years of time to implement an agenda that was decided long ago, elsewhere. The frontman is utterly expendable.