Will Ryder Default to Soldier in Cutscenes? Do you want them to?

That's not true, they're not pre-rendered. Your thinking CGI cutscenes in which case they couldn't even 'show' your character at all. They're by there nature heavily scripted though. And they have to do different scene parts to take into account all those things. It's easier to just not take any of that stuff into account. It's one reason we just get bogstandard assault rifle for most things in past games.

Either way they're not all pre-rendered. Anytime your character is involved it literally can't be pre-rendered.

I would love if cutscenes were relegated to being non-combat but, considering we are talking about a cutscene-heavy game series, i'm not expecting this to change. Now, however, if they did do variances depending on classes, that would be great. And, yeah, getting the right weapon/options would be nice too. The powers are a bit situational so i wouldn't expect all classes to shine during cutscenes.