I'm wondering if they wanted to do some of these things, or they just didn't understand what we want after 2 games...
Because surely there is a way of getting Forge to have simple blocks, colours and flat spaces. I can't believe that so little has been added or improved on in this area.
The Playtest the hell out of MP and get all those fans and focus groups in but I bet you they did nothing of the sort for the Forge Community. Certain Affinity has people that make MP maps the way they like them and Forge is just some lego after-thought for them. That is why we have all these fancy looking maps with objects welded into the scenery.
Hopefully they push on for Halo 5 and actually make a level editing tool and not magnetic lego.