Halo Wars 2 was not a great game. There were seeds there, but the narrative was weak, the mission variety kinda lacking, and the season pass one of the worst I've ever seen (it offers about 2 hours of gameplay for ~$40 because they pushed Firefight too hard).
Rather than developing a really good, lengthy campaign, we got... well, way too much emphasis on Firefight. Game pushes its multiplayer and cards way too hard. It's annoying and one of the reasons I don't enjoy booting the game up.
It's a big issue with a lot of Microsoft's games lately, if I'm being honest. I don't want some gigantic banner blocking the game when I boot it up, screaming about some new multiplayer update, asking me to spend more money. I was given the season pass. I have all the content. I don't need to be asked to buy it too. Can't it at least run a check to see if I own the content? jfc.
Space combat would have been incredible. And what is that, some kind of XCOM-style ant farm? Sounds amazing and way more in-depth than what we got with Halo Wars 2.
Boring campaign, boring story, awful multiplayer news feed, just as frustrating as Gears 4's and Halo 5's.