Since we're talking about the flood, rate me autistic but I cannot stand what 343 did with them in lore
correct me if i'm wrong and it's always been this way, but deciding to give them some backstory origins as the remnants of dead gods(precursors) that can rewrite reality and shit(neural physics) is just a slap in the face and ruins them, thought I was playing Halo which is meant to be grounded in some reality, not anime sci fi shit, it's not scary it's just retarded and feels out of place
Them as just a super intelligent parasite that no one knows who or what made them and what their capable of felt more ominous as did the entire lore of halo when everything was mysterious
I know this sounds random and autistic but it's always something that bothered me the most that I never hear ANYONE talk about negatively and I just cannot stand this modern writing trend of having to explain everything with no room for any sort of mystery