: It's better to ask questions than to think everything in the universe is here
: for a strictly white or black reason. Halo needed its fans to ask if what
: Halsey and the rest of ONI was ultimately for the good of humanity or if
: it was a tragic mistake that luckily found a just cause.

Those questions were already asked many times in The Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, and the Halsey journal. What Halo didn't need was beat the fans over with the head with how evil Halsey is, which Traviss did.