“It took me two hours to makes this drawing. I spent one and a half hours drawing something else, then decided I didn’t like it so I threw it away and drew this in about 30 minutes. So yeah, this drawing took me two hours.” If you start over from scratch then the previous work doesn’t count. DNF has started from scratch several times, so realistically, yeah it’s only been in development for about 4-5 years.
Not revealing anything at E3 DOES NOT in any way shape or form mean that they haven’t been doing anything with HL. You can be absolutely sure they’re working on something HL related right now, they’re just not telling us anything about it.
Your idiotic optimism makes me lol. You desperately believe this without any evidence other than wanting it to be true. I doubt Valve will be revealing anything at E3 because they said they won’t be revealing anything at E3. They’re not going to downright lie to the community just to make it a surprise when it’d already be a surprise anyway.
Your logic has gaps the size of the Grand Canyon and your beliefs and opinions are determined by what you’d like to believe.