Requiems Demise: Cheap Tactic or Smart Idea?

Halo 4 - Spartan Ops: Season 1 | Episode 3: Chapter 2 ‘Galileo’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuyc6cTOITA

For the very first time in Spartan Ops, Episode 3 features me playing with a Subscriber! Although super laggy it was a lot of fun. The discussion topic is: the destruction of Requiem. Cheap tactic or a smart idea?

I think it was lame. The fact it started out as a joke by Frankie and then implemented because they couldn’t think of anything better bugs me. If it had been done in a way other than Jul 'Mdama pressing a button, maybe I’d buy it. Just seems like a glaring design flaw.