but I'd personally rather see Relic shoot for the moon than not.
That is the super depressing thing about Coh3s launch. It killed the playerbase, streaming, etc. Some of that may come back.
But imagine if Coh3 was actually done when it released. Now they could be focusing on really cool stuff like you are describing. I have a bunch of small dumb ideas that would make the game fun as hell to play for casuals and streams, buts its like 2 years from just being playable. And work on it will probably die after that. Those little things will never be even thought about before it dies.
So coh3 went from "This could be amazing" to "I hope it just gets playable before they drop it".
I seriously just dont get why you would kill your own IP like this.