By the way, I think they are changing their name to Halo studios or something like that and releasing Halo CE with UE5. This will be like the 4th time it gets a remake...
Not in a significant way. I mainly like the aesthetics. And material for a potential future fanfic or scifi novel. So lore videos were useful, and the narrative choices of 343 were ... questionable, to say the least.
They wanted to milk the MC. I dislike fanfic personally, but I have considered Halo fanfic when I was a fan of the series. I hesitate to call myself a fan of anything anymore because how much we get burned as fans. The issue with 343 is they made the product more generic.