Not a single planet to explore

I 100% agree with the original poster. There is no exploration in this game. It's all hand holding and leading us down the rabbit hole treadmill of quest boredom.

"Oh goody, wonder how far Ted has gotten in the game, because he's gonna see the same shit I'm seeing." 

It all come down to sense of something, I think.  To me, I wanna feel like I'm the first person to explore an uncharted planet.   Not feel like I have to collect 10 bear asses for Mary Sue.  It takes me somewhere I've never been before, and hey, that's "exploring".  No, you went there because you had a job to do.


That's what the entire game feels like. 

Let's look at this objectively,

1st of all, while I agree it would be nice for us to go down on some planets for a side mission,
but even if we get it, it won't end up being an explorable landscape. It will just end up to be another Habitat 7 where you're only open to areas involving the mission.
It would just essentially be like ME2 again.

2nd, We're on a mission to explore & find habitable planets & we do have 7 target planets already decided before we even head to Andromeda.
it would only makes sense that the explorable planets would be the target planets.

3rd, unlike the Normandy Mk.2. Our Tempest is small & don't actually have shuttles to drop us off, we also have less crew.
Everytime we want to explore the Tempest will have to land, & it doesn't make any sense for the Tempest to land on every planet for small missions.