Disagree.
Normal in-game actions should be the only way to communicate with other players. In Halo multiplayer, rapid crouching is a universal sign of friendship. Unless, of course, it’s over a dead body.
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Well yes I kinda am. I don’t need an animation or set of animations that will likely be very cringy to communicate with my team. Like I said, there’s already a bunch of ways to do that that are faster, more well-known, and easier to use than to pull up a new menu or use up a perfectly good keybind.
I enjoy occasional teabag but I am not in favour of emotes 
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Because copying other games has worked so well for Halo in the past, right?
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Frankly, I don’t see a world where emotes are implemented where it doesn’t, eventually, get out of control. They may start with some somewhat reserved and “grounded” ones, but since the whole design of Infinite seems to be expandability, they’d add more over time, and to make the new ones stand out, and to feed demand of players from other games who are used to their avatars being able to floss/dance/etc., they would end up adding goofy/stupid ones eventually.
I’m glad they seem to be taking a broad “steer-clear” approach on emotes in general. It’s one of the more encouraging customization decisions I’ve seen for Infinite yet.
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I get what you mean, I do think tactical emotes could be cool but I don’t necessarily think they belong much in a halo game in general. Their decision of not doing any I think was the right one, we do have poses for when games start and end so to me that is more than enough.
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I think having AI have emotes is a good compromise. You see them while you capture objectives or loot caves, which means you’ll only see them in the downtime while you’re actually playing the objective. This discourages them from being used in ways that’ll disrupt gameplay.
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They said the same thing about sprint and it’s been here for over a decade……
I do somewhat hope they add on called griff and its getting hit in the -yoink- by a nade RVB joke. But AI is enough.