Open world kills replay...

Annnd, I agree - still praying for a mod that just removes/autocompletes all the shitter quests.

I like Andromeda and I agree.

Also, having an 80-100 hour game means that although there is more romance/friendship content, it feels sparser.

Started my second playthrough and I'm having difficulty mustering the enthusiasm to drive back and forth so much.

You beat me to it.  I was also going to point out the fact that much of the open world stuff is optional.

The only thing that hurts replayability for me, is the profile system.  I enjoyed doing different playthroughs with different classes in the trilogy.  Sure...I can do that now by sticking with one profile, but it takes self-control (an area I'm lacking), and it's just not the same when I know my one character can do it all.  It takes away from each playthrough's "personality" for me.  My character now has access to all the same skills each playthrough.  In the trilogy, each playthrough felt different and unique because of class individuality.

Not so sure I'd agree.  In all the other games you could find extra missions by exploring planets.  In ME:A, all you get is extra xp or resources.  Never an option to land on the planet.  That is motivation right there for me to never even bother with scanning any planets at all.

I said planetary exploration, not space exploration. Planetary exploration is when you are on a planet like kadara, eladen, eos, havarl, voeld and you can actually freely explore them. Space exploration is when you are on the tempest and looking things on the galaxy map. Those two things are separate,

and frankly in ME 2, I thought it was bad because instead of having a few planets with different envinronments, we find a lot of repetitive one, like the planet of the zaeed mission had a lot of similiraties to the one where we rescued the lost quarian or the one where we have to activate the mech to destroy the cavern. these planets were for the most part forgetable, they were envinronments we would barely visit before ending it, I prefer the game to concentrate on a few planets to explore rather tons of them that takes a lot of time to create but that would end quickly.

and the quest on these planets were for the most part boring, in ME 1 you had quests that explain to you how it ends in a textbox, In ME 2 none of them had a dialogue about them, the beginning of the mission was explain too you in a mail, same for the consequences. You had to force yourself to find these boring quest, the amount of efforts needed to find them was not worth it. 

Of course all planet needs to have a limit, you can't program a game to have no limits unless its procedural. But at least, the region are large enough for me to lose myself into, something I could not do in previous games.

That said Ill admit that the "walls" of the planet should have been done better, like voeld having a frozen lake that we could not go on because the weight of the nomad would have broken the ice and drowned us, or Eos having huge rock mountains making us impossible to go further instead of that huge dome.

The problem with this is you still need to spend a bunch of time driving around worlds and things even if you are ignoring the side quests. And in DAI you HAVE to do at least some side stuff to unlock power points just to get to the next story part.

How long is a bunch of time driving around by only doing the main story? Drive on Eos. Go to Havarl where there's no driving. On Kadara only drive to the transponder location. Then drive on Meridian.

You don't have to do all the quests, and none of the "Task:" requests, to get to 100% viability on all planets and complete the game.

On my 3rd playthrough, I completed all main planet missions (ex: Remnant Ship, Flophouse, Vaults on Eladaan), loyalty quests, side quests that interested me and finished in 59hrs at level 52 with 22 cryo perks.

Some "Task:" missions are easy to complete because they are on the way to somewhere else but I rarely go out of my to do them because, well, they're totally optional. If you find you are spending too much time racing around a planet, don't do it.

While ME:A is very similar to Inquisition in certain aspects, ME:A is less dependent on the "fetch quests" and "Task:" missions to build up your XP and level.

Personally I think Open world rather adds to replayability than to reduce it. If there's still something to discover that I haven't seen before.

Bioware aren't masters of the open world concept in general. Their worlds aren't alive in the sense of creating an illusion. They added settlement building, and it's probably a mere coincidence that FO4 also added settlement building almost 2 years ago. MEA was already well into development by then. But the difference being, you have agency over how your settlements turn out to be in FO4, whereas you have none in MEA. Your people, aka settlers, deliver the illusion of being alive and going about their daily business, even tending the crops in FO4. They react to threats by picking up arms. In MEA they turn into the usual Bioware telegraph poles. Always standing in the same place or doing the same set of animations over and over. It's nice to discover the boozing lady for the first time in Prodromos. But revisiting her game months later, still being pissed out of her wits, makes you think, they should have kicked her off the station by now. In short, there's no illusion of change or development, not even the illusion of them reacting to their environment. So revisiting in order to see what's new is out of the window. There is nothing new to observe, nothing new to discover, nothing new to build.

Funny. Open world never killed skyrim replay.