I’ve re-read your comments - carefully - and you’ve still failed to convince me that Valve is holding up HL3 to wait for BM. And, likewise, I have failed to dissuade you from that idea. So that’s that.
You can say that this was a waste of time, and it probably was, but it’s not the destination, Katana, it’s the journey. If you would have bothered to read your Starbucks cup, you would have already known that.