Already missing his back and forth with cortana in 2, they really killed lots of personality besides stoic and direct. It does make sense knowing about reach and lore, but its still the turn towards hardened war story from this campier beginning, it really is a post 9/11 era franchise.

it was >almost< a thing

I UTTERLY despise these economists man, they think they are the smartest of the room and lack any foresight or moral codes, either liars and manipulators or utterly stupid.

Never the right humane thing to do but the "stonks go up" one.
Cherrypicked statistics and opinon books as facts.
REVOLTING.

AND asalways the no proffitting form the public service is usually on purpose missmanagement from politicians to introduce their cash buddies companies as the alternative, utter slopification due to GREED.