: This all sounds correct and reasonable to me, except that the S-IIIs were
: still quite young when they were "recruited", not teenagers yet
: from what I remember, and this part that sticks out: The question then is,
: why is it so important to you and others that this character type, a
: person that's more heavily broken down or stunted and built into a
: business-oriented soldier, is applied to everyone that has the label
: "Spartan", even if there are justifiable reasons for them to act
: differently? or, if it's not that specific, why does this new character
: type bother you guys so much?

For me, it's not that there are Spartan IVs and they're dudebros, it's that we no longer have the stoic IIs. All my favourite characters and character-types were abandoned in Halo 4, and from what we've seen thus far Halo 5 as well.

I personally wouldn't mind the Spartbro-Dudetans in the world and an element of the mythos, as long as we still had the older-style characters. Imagine a scene in which a group of IVs are joking and joshing around in a hanger, and across the way a (much smaller) group of IIs are quietly polishing guns/sharpening knives, or maybe playing a game of cards.

To see that direct separation acknowledged and addressed would do wonders for the state of the Halo universe right now. I feel like thus far, we've been told that the new IVs and their style are "how the spartans have always been, like, totally." Similar as to how so much of the Universe aesthetics were completely changed without an in-universe reason. I just want the old respected as they add the new.