thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Aside from the fact that yes, the game is likely not coming soon (but no one said it would), this kind of speculation from career opportunity ads is super-shaky and potentially very misleading.
Contrary to popular belief, this kind of position being hired DURING development is very common, and in big teams having multiple leads for the same discipline is not uncommon.
While this article tries to make it look like development has just started, is in early production, or hasn't started yet, that's simply clickbait. Nothing in those career ads actually indicates that in any solid way.
A lot of these ads have been there for over a year if not close to two (as per webarchive). They simply added the name Fable, which is normal since now the game has been revealed. Big dev studios hire for this kind of position all the way through development.
I hope you're right, I really do. FWIW, if these sort of projects have multiple leads, why use "Lead" in the titles to begin with? Why not something like "Principal" or "Chief", etc? When I think of the term "Lead" I think of it as a singular person unless it's being attached to a lead team of the project development, as an example.
Unfortunately, even if this is a common practice, most people don't know of it and it just compounds on the Halo Infinite delay that was announced today, so to uninformed it will seem like something of a blow along those lines.