How do you feel about the premise not happening due to the Reaper invasion?

Personally, I'm torn and I feel like more and more bad things start adding up as time goes.

When it's just "cuz we're so adventurous and curious like when Humanity got in space for the first time" I have a strong feeling we won't get any more to it than that, maybe details about how or what but not why outside of maybe N7 Dad saying what drives him, and I'm sure they came up with good stories for the scenario of escaping the past permanently, but for the Mass Effect lore which was frankly already beyond repair, by the end-state of ME3, I feel they're digging further into a rabbit hole here, especially because they tease with the idea of how Andromeda's ultimate goal is re-linking with Milky Way after establishing its species in Andromeda, but it's just... such a half-baked choice IMO. We're getting as far away from the original canon as possible, amirite? Then why does it have to somehow tie into the past canon anyway? It makes the original material seem slightly less believable because now this contrived clusterfuck of an exploration initiative has become part of the old lore and then it teases with relinking to the past anyway, which means AFTER Synthesis/Destroy/Control.

Hopefully they'll forget once the game is out and just continue in Andromeda. I hope eventually the Andromeda story arc becomes the story at large about humans and aliens figuring out to look forward in a new stage of their species's lives and decide to drop the original purpose of the initiative. I'm not really fond of taking it back to whence it came, once we've just escaped the canonical destruction we so desperately wanted to forget.

Now if the Initiative fled because of the Reapers -- if it wasn't an initiative but a preparation or evacuation plan that had been planned in secret, none of this would even have to be addressed. We'd all know people escape because they think it's the end of their galaxy and they can't go back. To me that was a much better scenario and i don't care if BioWare wanted to have it the other way so they could make more interesting character motivations, because IMO you don't retrofit a plot to suit your themes to that extent. You can't just make anything happen as long as it matches your themes and expect it to be as effective.