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moving past H3 really just completely fucked the setting, impossible to escalate past the Covenant and the Flood as credible threats without devolving into powercreep capeshit and derivative spinoffs (they're like the Covenant, but even WORSE! they're super-duper ancient aliens that even the flood can't beat!)
should have frozen the timeline and stuck strictly to prequels and spinoffs of the main timeline, not like they didn't have tons of side plots to work with