I had similar gripes and gave bushido stuff for his weapon packs, failed to see why anyone would use them over gravity cat's. Ignorance sucks, never knew the guy but I honestly feel bad for never reconciling with him.
Your packs were great and I even considered using your base for a halo mod that never came to fruition. RIP, hope you're clowning on me from wherever you are now.
Also it's good to see you Dill.
people tend to come out of the woodworks at times, and this is a rather coincidental timing.
Surely, any stuff that Bush got that for his weapon packs he surely took as good criticism, I mean, his whole idea was pretty against the grain at the time, yet he managed it through and now there's many other weapon packs that simulate his same idea. Khain's weaponpack is one of my favorites, yet I've had to conclude that this game needed ammo counters lol.
It'll be nice to know that his work is still out there, you can still interact and play and enjoy and appreciate the work he put into these assets. That's the nifty thing about modeling, not that I do it, but it allows you to give something to a community to use and admire, and it can for the most part stay there, even when they're gone.