Actually not finding any references in his planfiles to Hall, but check this out...

Actually not finding any references in his planfiles to Hall, but check this out on "the august quakeworld logs"

  aug 8:

  Romero is now gone from id.

  There will be no more grandiose statements about our future projects.

  I can tell you what I am thinking, and what I am trying to acomplish, but all I promise is my best effort.

(Compare against this [wired] article from 1997, and you start to get a sense there was a pretty acrimonious fight for the direction of the company where it was either Carmack's way or the highway)

I also found the tone in his plan update about American McGee's dismissal rather... casual:

  American McGee has been let go from Id.

  His past contributions include work in three of the all time great games (DOOM 2, Quake, Quake 2), but we were not seeing what we wanted.

[wired] https://www.wired.com/1997/01/braindrain-at-id-mood-dark-and...