Hey, Cody! Thanks for making your intentions clear that you are not trying to be disrespectful. I certainly appreciate that and intend to return the favor. :)

You asserted that Commander Shepard and those who relate to the expression of his feelings of anger and frustration over the Halo 5 Mark V Alpha asset are "angry over minutiae."

So, as it turns out, the premise of that assertion is flawed.

An individual's definition of "minutiae" within that specific context that you are referencing, is subjective. To many people over 65, for example, the entirety of videogames, and absolutely everything that has to do with the lot of them (For example, whether or not Halo Reach's campaign adheres to the previously established canon) would fall under those folks' definition of minutiae.

Different strokes for different folks.

To you, it may be legitimately minute. But to many of us, it is not.

(For clarity's sake, here is the Google'd definition of minutiae:)

mi·nu·ti·ae
noun
plural noun: minutia

the small, precise, or trivial details of something.

"the minutiae of everyday life"

synonyms: details, niceties, finer points, particulars, trivia, trivialities

"the captain cannot be concerned with the minutiae of shipboard life"

The difference in design between the asset that this was supposed to be, and the asset that it ended up being, is not minute.

It is actually quite large (as demonstrated). But of course, this post and its replies were not created in response to mere technical details being incorrect. It is what those "technical details being incorrect" signify that caused this.

To many of us, they signify consequential apathy (towards us and towards what we love: namely, Halo itself).

They signify the fact that certain people in authority who should have cared more, didn't. (And they signify the consequential implications of that fact thereby).

They signify the latest entry into a pattern of events that paint a picture we dislike enough to respond to.

At the end of the day, what events like these signify is a failure in stewardship -- and for those of us who care, such events demand being responded to in (hopefully) productive ways.

It would be all too easy to simply generalize all fan-borne criticisms such as these into a giant blob, where lines are blurred and distinctions are lost (and where you can justify anything and everything that you do because everything is relative and there is no objective truth to the matter, so just do what feels good at the time, and whoever objects to that can just go suck an egg or something, because who cares?), but I would encourage everyone who feels that way to reconsider that, when you take away the subjectivity of how individuals classify what they consider to be minutiae, it all really just comes down to one straightforward concept: If you're going to do it at all, then you should do it right.

Period.