No because half life 2 built upon the gameplay of half life 1 as well as modernized it. Half life 2 only built upon half life 1.

Meanwhile BioShock infinite only took away from what made something a BioShock game. No way you are telling me the game with a huge marketing budget and following up on two cult classic games would sell well when the first 2 were barely marketed. That's crazy.

When I say it killed the franchise I mean it killed what made the franchise good/special. If we ever do get another Bioshock it's going to be another infinite it's not going to be another Bioshock one or two in terms of gameplay and player freedom. We likely won't get another immersive Sim adjacent game we'll just get another linear game where players are just told this is how things are instead of them making sense in the setting and story.

Another good example is deathloop. It was made by arkane (rest in peace) and was the game they made directly after prey 2017 which is considered by many to be an incredible immersive sim.

Deathloop sold more (at least we think, they mentioned 5 million players but not necessarily 5 million sales probably a good chunk was game pass) but from the gameplay perspective things death loop was incredibly dumbed down and much more linear in comparison. The story was also far more simple. Both infinite and deathloop received the much sought after 10/10 reviews from reviewers like IGN. Despite their gameplay being dumbed down and oversimplified for mass appeal.

They sold better but they're not better games. I'm personally of the opinion that that's exactly why they got 10 out of 10s because the gaming journalists that are notoriously bad at games were helped along enough to beat the game and feel powerful unlike prey and BioShock 1/2 that didn't hold the players hand nearly as much.