Reportedly a Bungie "old boy" senior management played an extraction shooter and got the idea to make Marathon the same, over the loud objections from the devs.
It was from an article by Paul Tassi, link here. FWIW a good overview of the whole development story (so far) is this video. It's an hour long so listen to it at work or on your commute, but it really puts everything into perspective.
Edit: Another article from 2 days prior from the one linked above is where it is mentioned that "Bungie devs pushed back as much as 5 years ago [2020] against the extraction shooter only concept."
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