At some point gaming (because of CoD and WoW) made it so playing games was only about leveling. In Halo, this is arbitrary when all weapons exist in game already. Theres no wep unlocks just cosmetics.
To me this is perfect. I don’t find solace in trying to be highest level nor does that matter. A lot of time the highest ranked player isn’t even that good at the game. They are playing for them selves and not for the team/objective.
The way you show off you’ve played a lot is via your cosmetics. Now, on the topic of slow progression, it’s not really slow if you buy the credits for premium. They literally give you xp boosters with premium. You can get to level 25 instantly and get cosmetics if you want to buy cosmetics. Sure the fire helmet will take some users a long time to get but the players that want to spend 1k hours on game deserve to have some crazy cool helmet the rest of us don’t.
Anyway, my rant. I like the movement 343.