Honestly.
Don't even try Team Objective again. Leave Objective in BTB.
We've had 3 games now, the populace doesn't want Objective, it'll just be introduced as a fairly standard playlist then slowly converted into hardcore-lite 5 months later when it has 300 population again.
Roll a 4v4 Obj playlist once in a while as a week-long special.
I dislike this plan. Objective's population has been very steady for the last year or so, at close to 1k players during peak hours. It's usually higher than Super Slayer. At about 1/10 the population of the huge heavy hitters, why shouldn't that merit a list if it can sustain itself? If they did a proper job of marketing and promoting it, and rewarding players who play it, then that number could be significantly higher.
Looking at their Reach BTB changes, they might force Slayer and Heavies down people's throats with it again, getting objective in BTB these days often requires a large party to force the vote.
The definition of insanity is trying something 4 times and expecting a different result.
What expectations are you setting for it that make Reach's Objective playlist a failure? It's a hard playlist to compete in. It's never going to top Living Dead or Slayer. But it offers an experience that defines Halo for a whole bunch of people, and can sustain its population just fine, and I firmly believe it could succeed if the gametypes they shove in aren't fucking horrible like VIP in 3 or the nonsense they have in there now. People didn't play it in 3 because the gametypes were trash at launch. Team Flag was a huge success, largely because it was Double EXP, but also because it was
fun, unlike proper TO. I guess I could see your point if we were still at the point where TO was maxing out at 500 players per night, but it's recovered significantly since then after the TU.
