Their attitude is annoying, and while that may not make them stupid, shooting corpses for several seconds when they should be shooting enemies does.

: except that would be totally awesome? what roles do ODSTs really have now
: that there are mass produced spartan IVs? what's the point?

Superior style.

It's not like they need augmentation anyway; heck, Dutch can punch a brute chieftain across a room just fine as it is. If anything, SIV augmentations actually seem to make people weaker, on top of turning them into idiots.

The UNSC should really invest in other programs.