Franchise Reboot?

Well...
Any triple AAA title costs a fortune nowadays, saying money shouldn't be spent on any title is irrelevant because the only thing that matters is if it will turn out profit.

In my opinion, a reboot could be great if:
_{-They allow us to Shepard's military background in the prologue (fending off the Skyllian Blitz, surviving a nest of thresher maws or butchering Torfan);
-We are given the option to save both Kaidan and Ashley on Virmire;
-Abandoned plots such as biotic discrimination, humanity's dominance on the Council and dark energy killing stars were explored and given closure;
-The order of recruitment in the part covering ME2 got flexibilized (the writing and dialogue was even already done before being cut from the game);
-Zaeed and Kasumi had their roles and interactions expanded;
-In the part covering ME3 they allowed characters with no good excuses (Samara, Zaeed, Kasumi and Miranda) to rejoin Shepard as squadmates once their primary issues were solved.
-Include a subplot properly retconning the existence of the Andromeda Initiative into the main story and having Shepard interact with Alec and Jien.}

I remember suggesting ages past that BioWare should try to do a remake of the original trilogy, my opinion still stands the same on that front.

Mass Effect Andromeda apparently got dropped by the devs because the lauch had several bugs that compromised sales. Personally, I feel that the story the game tells pushed the established canon too far and people felt it was more of an unrelated story dressed in Mass Effect visuals.

I think that the only way of salvaging the Andromeda Initiative is to renew general interest for the franchise as a whole in a way that ties MEA closer to MET. For that to happen, we need to reboot Shepard's story and tell it again with modern graphics.

Since Shepard's story is the tale told by an old man to his grandchild eons after it happened, it wouldn't be difficult to change many aspects of it so that the experience feels brand new despite already knowing most of the overeaching plot.

Imagine if we could erase Jacob, change the sexual orientation of certain squadmates cough#Tali#cough or even have an ending that isn't completely insane? The possibilities are limitless so long as that old man telling the story has memory problems that allow the devs to change what people liked and disliked the most about the trilogy.

In order to attract more fans to Andromeda, they could mention the Initiative during the re-imagined story of Mass Effect 1 and even have Shepard do a series of missions helping Alec build S.A.M. and helping Jien build her ships during his/her six month journey between defeating Saren and being killed by the Collectors. Later they could show us the Initiative leaving during the part of the game which covers Mass Effect 2 and have Shepard say the N7 day message as the Commander watched the Pathfinder departing.

Having Shepard return in 4K and playing a direct role in setting up MEA would definately hype up the spin-off for the continuation it set up but lacked in sales to deliver.

And Zaeed would no longer exist, since his VA is dead. Who could even replace that guy? I know there's a bunch of talented voice actors out there, but it's a hard pill to swallow and I know I'd probably be able to tell the difference. 

Well...
Sight, I am talking about putting together the entire trilogy into a single game called "Mass Effect" that retolds the story of Shepard with slight modifications and new gameplay features.

I can't believe I forgot to tell that part.

How is this better than using a canon ending? If anything, it's less respectful of the choices we made with our own Shepards.