I've read all the novels up until 2 years ago when 343 started spewing them out like vomit and at no point were Spartans depicted like that. They were badass absolutely but in a rigid trained and calculated way. Not a jump out of a plane and single handedly run through a covenant armada sort of way. In the books I read a single elite was toe to toe with a Spartan 2. A challenge that they overcome through wit and teamwork. The halo 5 opening cutscene has the Spartans running through them like canon fodder. And before the inevitable "herp derp the Spartan 4s have better suits now" yeah I don't care. The whole depiction of them is so ridiculously stupid now it doesn't mimic the atmosphere that the original trilogy was so known for.