The fact that people want Halo to fail baffles me

I do not envy 343. They've basically got a gun pointed at their heads from all sides, Xbox needs the game to be a success, they gotta appease the Bungie fans, the 343 fans, newcomers, old fans, outsiders, journalists, the people who will never even play the game

They have to please everyone for the game to be taken seriously. And I find it funny that all these shmucks who know jackshit about game development say Halo needs something new and special or else it will fail, but they never say what