70 hours in, i cannot get most of the complaints. At all. UPDATED OP#2

I've never had a problem with moving on from.planets when i need to or want to. I was constantly zone hopping in DA I didn't effect the pacing at all.

i agree with you there. The DAI loading times were atrocious.

+1. Normally I install games on my rotational but for open world games, SSDs are a must. This and DAI are no exceptions.

FWIW Origin makes it pretty easy to install on the drive of your choice.

I finally got the error message to clear.  It's a combined issue based on how ME:A is handling the autosaving on the Xbox One and how Microsoft Live is managing the cloud access (or lack thereof) for people with different levels of Live accounts.  ME:A is autosaving both to the local drive and to the cloud.  I can find no way to override this.  Microsoft Live does not give access to the cloud storage to free accounts, so it is not possible for a person with such an account to manage the individual saves that sit in the cloud.  Also, there does appear to be a bug within ME:A such that, despite my now having a better internet connection, the Save Data Error does not actually delete the corrupted save data in the cloud (probably because it can't access the cloud either because of my free account).  In the end, the only thing that cleared the message was to go into Manage Games for ME:A, select "Saved Data"; select my Live profile; and then select "Delete Everywhere."  This, of course, wiped the save I had just started that was not corrupt.  Not a great situation since I'm unavoidably losing all my ME:A saves regardless of whether or not they are corrupted.  This bug is one that should definitely be fixed... along with the general lack of ability to manually save during some missions.

Fortunately for Bioware, I'm not easily deterred... so I will be giving ME:A a second chance here and am starting over, again, with a new character... but I could something like this happening turning other people off the game completely.

Hahaha

Plus, not sure if you play many games that are released on Steam that night/day, but SSD's make decrypting them a whole lot quicker.  We're talking about a minute vs. about 10-15 min's.

Yesterday i got to the first acrchitect at eos . the fight took me 2 hours (insanity)... epic sh&T right there. Just when i thought the game was getting easier.

This was one of the tricky things about MEA design. But this is only because of a couple of aspects about it. You really could fly through the main quests but downside is that the final battle and drive are far less epic and almost meh by comparison to getting those sidequests on the planets done. The whole ending from nomad drop on meridian on is very meh by comparison and conversations are a bit strange in some spots (with tann, addison, kesh and kandros after you leave Alec's apt). But having the  vaults turned on if you don't like doing that is a huge plus. I think you can still go back to planets and do the quests. I never tested it because the one speedrun I did it felt kind of off and like there was no going back. They give you that feeling that it is done because they expect you've done all that stuff, but technically, every quests that is not vault related should still exist. Kadara is still a mess. Krogan situation should still exist. Eos only had a few things left. Havarl's main stuff wouldn't exist so you prob wouldn't get the offer for the scientists, then again they could set it so that if they know you are the one who accessed meridian then technically you did turn on their vault, but it would require changes in dialogue and be missing the two Angara that were pulled into that quest. So you lose sidequests going that way and it's less umph. It was probably not anticipated in the design but it might still be doable. Yeah, they didn't really set it up so that order works very best or even particularly well, probably because you were meant to focus on viability.

FYI, It took complaints to get many those issues fixed.

update #2 :some thoughts:
One thing Andromeda fails is the geography, map design, landmark design. I kinda like the planets (the themes) ive been so far but something is missing in all of them. the geography is boring. the level-map design is boring. The vistas are not there. the landmarks are not there. it is not that they are barren cause Hissing waste and Western approach were barren but also very beautiful.
Also a big fail immersion breaking for me is the flaura and fauna. There are boring as well. The fauna... consists of what??? a jerky moving raptor and some huge ass beetles?
Storm coase on inquisition did not had any meaningful questline but it was a beast to look and roam at! too many landmarks, too many steeps but interesting ones! i remember the river that poured into the sea. I remember the views from above. everything.
This alone made storm caose one of my favorite zones in inquisition. i always was eager to go there. 

I don't agree... I could spend all day looking out from the top of Mithrava watching the Manta flying... still trying to get a scan of one, just because.  After one clears the sky on Voeld, there are some terrific views with northern lights going on in the background as well.  I find that there's a huge variety of flora. I will agree that they could have introduced a few more varieties of fauna... but since most people, I'm sure, just use them as easy kills and don't seem to even want to notice the variety that is there, it might have been a wasted effort on Bioware's part.

I also love the level design of Havaarl... while you can choose to do the quests in any order, they still make sense... I don't feel as though I'm deliberately flying past areas to avoid triggering quests that I'm planning to save for later.  Driving in the snow on Voeld felt like a sleigh ride... great fun.  The unusual electrical storms on Habitat 7 were also very interesting to just watch.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion... and I mine.