Bonnie Ross is not the director. You want the actual game devs who should be working on the game to waste their sitting on meetings with Microsoft execs? Bonnie Ross has been working on Microsoft's gaming division before Xbox and is probably the seniormost member after Phil Spencer. She was the one who requested the Xbox execs to give Halo Infinite extra time and budget(instead of the usual 3-4 years) and was the one who bought in Joseph Staten first into Xbox Publishing Division in 2014 from Bungie and later into 343i in 2020. There is no one else in 343i who can talk with the top guys in Microsoft better than her.
Her job is to manage non gaming related stuffs.
Bonnie Ross has been the head of 343 Industries since it's inception and what has she accomplished throughout her tenure? Halo 4, whose multiplayer direction was aimed at a Call of Duty fanbase that largely ignored it's existence and drove away Halo's long term fanbase? Halo 5: Guardians, whose story was so bad, the next game in the series resolves it's conflict offscreen? Halo Infinite, a game that was in development for six years and to this day s
till doesn't have as many features as a game that was released twelve years ago? That last point being a continual complaint had by the community sense Halo 4 which launched without Firefight, a ranking system, and playable Elites. Halo 5 launched without
so many things: FORGE, Firefight, armor customization, playable Elites, splitscreen multiplayer, Big Team Battle, Grifball, Emblem customization and multiplayer playlists. and Infinite still doesn't have Forge and just got Co-Op, kind of.
Oh, and I almost forgot the abortion of a TV show that was in development for a decade by Kiki Wolfkill, An ad campaign that completely misled fans about the story of Halo 5, Bonobogate, Battlepass, Req Packs, there are videos, essays, articles, and so many posts about the misdirection of the Halo IP under these three idiots that anybody can find out just how slagged the series has really become. Oh, and to anyone who says: 'It's not her fault she's just the manager!', all I can say is that at the end of the day, the Studio Head or Director, or Executive Vice President or whatever is ultimately responsible for the product that gets put out onto the store shelf. If you are charging people money for a product, if you put your name on that product, it means that you are responsible for it no matter what.