Re: It's Marathon... but why?

The new "Marathon" game -scheduled for a September release- will be
none of that. It's a soulless extraction-shooter that looks like it
was developed in RoBlox and will be extremely light on narrative and
atmosphere

   I watched some of the twitch gameplay video yesterday, and it appears to be another of the large crop of online military multiplayer squad shooters that are popular now, somewhat similar to cod or battlefield?  The gameplay mechanics seemed competent and quick paced (I'm not a good judge of this), and unlike you I'm very much ok with the more comicbook blocky, less realistic presentation, as while watching I felt little of the stress associated with games using 'real' weapons shooting at realistic humans, which should make this title more appropriate for a younger audience (which I have no doubt their marketing department intended).
But I guess like you, I simply have no interest in this genre, where the gameplay loop is online twitch shooting repeated to infinity.  The franchise Marathon itself I have no history or connection with, but your complaints there seem correct.  A big pass for me.
rms