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>>8454637
>The HD models are too detailed in an unappealing way.

You really got to look at this from when the game was released in 2001. At that point, the original Half-Life looked clunky in 2001. The devs originally made those models for the Dreamcast port, which was shit canned at the last moment. Blue Shift and the HD models were salvaged from that port and released on the PC as an expansion pack. At that point, they were a nice inclusion, just to make the game not look completely outdated in 2001. For quite a while, the HD pack wasn't even part of the Steam release. I remember installing them for Blue-Shift on Steam back in the day, and I had to download them from a different URL. I think valve added the option to turn them on with the Linux build updates. But the HD models were always the default in Half-Life Source.