The reason why there was so much trouble with population and streamlining the playlists is because Reach got devided into three entirely seprate games. You couldn’t condense the playlists without hurting all 3 of the games. Game 1 was vanillia reach Game 2 was the TU. Game 3 was anniversery. Each of these games needs free for all, team, objective, and big team to feel like halo. That means minium of 12 playlists to do each game justice. That does not even count the specialty game types like invasion.
I consider TU a seprate game because it played totally differently from regular reach.
Anniversery was a seprate game also because it needed to have it’s own set of playlists in order for someone with only anniversery to experience the game.
So 343 a bit of advice, don’t fragment the next game please. That way we won’t loose the core of gametypes when you need to consolodate playlists.