This game should've never released / should pretend it never happened

That is a huge stretch. Anthem is a MMO like KOTOR so this is how long they intend to support it. Their other IP's would be handled from s different division. Nothing I see here indicates your assumption is right.

It should have been delayed a year period

Yeah they talked to one of the guys who's writing it, so the writing process is beginning, and it's not going to be affected by Anthem.

I am talking about money. Obviously money is scarce and EA will have to decide how to use it wisely. Given that a good chunck will goto Anthem for the next 10 years, what money goes to the Montreal studio? Do they use the extra money for a game using the Andromeda brand? A name that does not have a high quality acceptance to it? Or do they drop the Andromenda brand and just focus on the Milky Way ME? Or do they go back to the drawing board and create a new IP? Or does Montreal go back to simply being a support studio and just assist Edmonton/Austin with their perspective projects?

Like it or not Andromeda was not well recieved and no matter how patched up the game is, the 1st impression of the game is the lasting impression of the game/Andromeda brand for a lot of people. Financially it will be tough for EA to justify why a MEA2 should be made over a ME4 or a new IP.

Yeah I doubt they were worried about MEA and it made a heck of a lot of money in the end, so they are doing just fine!

Definitely. When I saw in the year end report that EA had to transfer $53 million from ME:A Premium Edition sales to Q1 FY18 I knew that ME:A had sold far better than anyone thinks. It might not have been a reviewers delight but it is more than commercially viable.

I don't see the connection between Anthem and ME:A2. Over the course of that many years manpower is fungible anyway, unless there just isn't enough dev talent out there. If ME:A2, Anthem (and DA4) are profitable projects, then EA can staff up to whatever level they need to.

The connection would be between MEA2 and every more-profitable project in EA's pipeline, rather than Anthem in particular. If all the capital's gone before they get to funding MEA2, then there's no MEA2.

I think you are way overestimating the so called damage to the "brand."

Indeed. So much of this.

The last time I reconsidered things and went with a new approach, I wound up in a Dutch thread.

and there's the other group. Granted, of course there is nothing wrong with what i am going to point out. But there is nothing 'wrong' with the game. Aside from being a little buggy. Just those who really liked the OT seem to want either more of the same or an escelation to the OT. The second view is a bit silly because if you made a BIGGER LARGER threat then the Reapers fresh into a new story it'd get old and the problem is then what? Another escalation? The former comes down to bioware was not interested in telling that kind of story...this time. So it comes down to personal taste. Because MEA improved on the OTs roleplay. Was very well written. And was fun to play. Just it was a desecalation and not a war story.