I have had lag, I have had bullshit moments, etc etc. I've also had points where I rage at missing the last shot.
But I've also had superb, incomparable (except to other Halos, and this beats 4, Reach and 2 for me; 3 was a special case which whilst the spread (lol now there's an issue, ey, which Halo game has not been hobbled by something we can obsess and scream over?) was rubbish, hit at a zeitgeist moment for me and my friends - we loved it despite that issue, as did you lot) games and fun with friends. I really think you can have a terrible time on it, sure, but I also think you can obsess over video analysis and fetishise that knowledge to the exclusion of all else. GAF talks itself into utterly outraged angst about Halo, obsessing over everything negative as if it's a world-ending fact: the discourse slides from hype and then enjoyment to (years later) anguished depression, like clockwork. Look, if the game is as broken as you lot seem to perenially shout about, why the hell do I, and many others, like playing it so much? Is it because we're all pathetic dupes, and you are the enlightened? Of course you don't think that.
Surely there's a middle-ground of sorts in this. Yes, the game has issues. No, they do not make me think it is bad as a whole, or that these negatives outweigh the good, nor do they affect my enjoyment 98% of the time. I too have days of play in this.