These are some amazing improvements. We finally have more advanced lighting systems, a significant increase to the number of items, and some basic weather effects. Forge is definitely going to be a lot more flexible than in previous iterations. This is the biggest expansion to Forge we've seen since to date.

But in regards to that "However..." in my post title, Forge still has a lot of potential to grow. I think it can benefit from the addition of features that already exist on other map editors (e.g., the Far Cry series, Project Spark), including:

• A proper terrain editor. Raise mountains, carve valleys & rivers, dig caves. Give us a big 500m×500m blank square as a Forge canvas.
• A texture tool. Paint that blank texture-less map to look like grassland, arctic, desert sands, etc.
• A vegetation generation tool. Cover the ground with grass, and groups of trees and bushes.
• A proper time of day/sun angle tool.
• More advanced weather tools. Not just wind & fog but also snow, rain, etc.
• Actual Covenant architecture pieces in addition to standard human & Forerunner pieces.

Add these things in Halo 6 and, when combined to all the various other improvements made over the years and the generally superior user-friendliness of Forge, and you'll have the ultimate map editor.