That would be nice, sure. I am just saying, it still wouldn’t give them a significantly better standing over Valve, in my eyes. Valve is currently kinda the Linux Gaming Savior. Hard to beat that unless they also start actively (!) doing something.
Missing vehicle combat is one of the two points I listed, so “it doesn’t need to be that big because there are no vehicles” is a bad reason.
I don’t want to imply that the game called “Tribes 3” will be bad. I just think it should not be called “Tribes 3” when it is not an evolution of Tribes 2 but “only” a small subset with a different focus. “Epic scale” was one of the key elements of Tribes 1 and 2.