Hmm.
I don't agree with this on a lot of levels, but since I don't want this response to basically be another whole review, I'll try and take them quickly.
I played Goldeneye, I played Half Life 1, I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and Unreal games before Halo, and I still enjoyed Halo, putting it up there with those other experiences. This may be because instead of getting fixated on an old generation just because it came first, I was still in the process of enjoying games rather than being critical of them. I try to like things I buy, rather than obsessively nit-pick in what seems like an attempt to deliberately break my experience. So I don't agree on perhaps your most fundamental point.
I liked the movement, sure the jump was a sudden leap, but the little extras, like a small slide as you came in to land, and he quite helpful distance and height, both contributed to my liking of the mechanic. Also, the running I felt was alright, sure sometimes the set pieces were huge and you were moving slowly, but it was never slow enough to break the game for me, it felt more like you were heading into unknown territory, knowing something bad was happening. And by delaying the big battles until you arrived, you always felt like the cavalry, no matter how quickly you got there. Besides, at least they also had weapon movement on screen, so it felt like you might actually have been stepping instead of gliding.
Shooting, I'm a little disappointed that you ragged on the pistol. Everyone's ragged on the pistol, it's the thing to do. Bungie ragged on the pistol themselves, yes it was broken, get over it. And also, I've played the thing on all difficulty, and barely ever had to watch my grenade counter, because I didn't need to use them, so I don't know where you got that from.
Why does everyone assume the future will mean more stuff? Surely the ultimate goal of efficiency and design is to streamline things, only one car, which is the best of everything, one assault rifle which is the best an assault rifle can be, one pistol, one shotgun. Sure it's only an opinion and your personal reading, but I liked that they didn't try to bog you down with every gun under the sun. And the Covenant weapons were better at cracking shields, it's just that most people never bothered, but try it on Legendary and the results are fantastic.
Level Design, you're pretty much spot on.
Again, the multiplayer, I don't like multiplayer at all, but then again, I didn't like Unreal, or Quake, or Goldeneye, or in fact any multiplayer game I've ever played in my life, so I won't dwell on that one.
So in short, I disagree for the above reasons, and please, don't include so much hyperbole. '90% of shooters ever' there are so many shooters, and so many of them are crap in every way imaginable that this just made me ignore that one comparison, and until then I'd thought it was a nice way to do it.
