I feel the same way about the neighboring "one year later" thread.

343i got what is one of the biggest IP transfers of all time. They made mistakes and did controversial things. They're working on them (see Spartan Assault), but almost all companies face constraints that prevent them from doing a public l post mortem on a currently shipping product.

Almost any new dev would have "ruined Halo" the same way. There's no point in hating 343 for it.