Brutes are just retarded Spartans in terms of ability and stuff, and in appearance they look like gorillas. They are just too familiar. Elites are dinosaur, bad-ass, samurai-like(and everyone loves samurai) in culture, spartan like things. They are so much more interesting, and we have already played as elites before, so why shouldn't we now? So yeah, I agree, no one wants to play as Brutes, and tons want to play as Elites. So it should be added. Maybe in the campaign we could have the Arbiter return? And have a multiplayer mode where you can be elites?