: But I'm glad this isn't something they are actively planning, because I would
: be very displeased to hear they're wasting time creating superficial armor
: instead of improving their matchmaking experience.

Yup. Want to make money? Make Halo 5 without quicktime events, no weapon overlap, no gimmicks but instead new stellar level design, truly unique enemies, and ship it with 30 multiplayer maps. That would do the trick very nicely.

Because what would improve the matchmaking experience more than having tons of maps from the get go which will always come up in rotation because everybody already has them? Not rocket science.