Not needed anymore. It's like DNF or Star Citizen: If you make people wait for too long, some of them eventually will move on. Even if they started as fans.
The when-its-done-mantra is not working on me anymore. We all waited long long years for this and Valve ignored us. Now they seem to think, we can start this relationship over with a statement. And HL3 won't be that good to convince me to wait another 20 yrs or so for HL4, so I'll skip this particular title. In fact they can go and shove...

I'll stop here. Lot's of interesting games coming in 2025 anyway.
2 cents. Needed to vent this, sorry.