Did we really/want another Mass Effect game?

I suppose I get that.  However, I see it as every story has to end somewhere else.  I'm happy that Andromeda is in the same Mass Effect gaming universe so we can see this tech and these races again but a completely separate tale that is unshackled by what came before.  I'm glad Ryder isn't constantly in the massive shadow of Shepard (I suppose to some player he/she always will be because they compare this game to prior games), however in the context of the game itself and it's story, no one mentions Commander Shepard other than Alec Ryder's memory quest.  

Seeing the after-effects of the game can be said about literally any story ever and then there is never an end in sight because there will always be SOMETHING else we haven't seen the results of.  In my mind, and seems like yours too, we already did see the results in ME3.  I don't want to play a game about the life of a construction worker that's rebuilding Earth in the Mass Effect universe (awful example, but really what galactic threat is going to top the Reapers?)

I agree the Milky Way had so much left to explore that was left uncharted.  However, as I said in my first paragraph, the problem was that everything would always be left in the shadow of the original trilogy and not really it's own new story and fresh start.  If they DIDN'T have familiar locations like the Citadel, Omega, Illium etc. people would complain they weren't there, but if they were they would complain it's just the same old settings.  That doesn't even factor in the fact that Bioware would have no choice but to make canon an ending which I think would enrage FAR more people that Andromeda.  The only option would be to make the universe exactly the same no matter which ending you chose and you could just pick one at the very start like you did Shepard's sex, which made no difference in the game anyway (Destroy - everything rebuilt, Geth and AI rebuilt and recreated, Reapers are dead and gone.  Control - everything rebuilt, Reaper Shepard took all Reapers back to dark space, no one has heard about them again.  Synthesis - No real changes to races, everything is just same old and the green veins and eyes faded over time, Reapers said "hey, everything's peachy now" and they left back to dark space and no one has ever heard from them again.  Refuse - no this would be forced to be non-canon because everyone would be wiped out and we would have no game)  It just seems like a headache to me for the fans and the developers.