You could write an entire essay about how this show intentionally and very loudly ignores the structures of power to instead focus on the idea of individual actors being behind evil. The show is a literal PowerPoint presentation explaining how the reactionary state subsumes and redirects anything that internally challenges it.
Yes and it is incredibly mid.
It also lets us know that Master Chief does canonically fuck, because if there's one thing a Halo TV show needed it was an explicit sex scene with Master fucking Chief.