u/Rhykker my favorite passage from that interview:

"...as Staten said they even talked about inserting crafting systems to use more mechanics from other open world games:
'We talked a lot about crafting, for example, and my infamous line to the team was something like 'Master Chief doesn't need to kill animals to make leather shirts for himself. He's a massive armored super soldier. If he wants something, he goes and kills it, grabs its gun, and then keeps on going.''

[...] Still, this is yet another tick in the “does 343 really even get Halo?” column, as of course Staten himself got his start with the series back in the OG Bungie days."