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

Fair enough, but you, like someone else, have stated that you find the game mediocre for all of its contents. Therefore I suppose that the initial bugs has just contributed to worsen the negative judgment of the game that you had. And even without the animation problems you would have still called it mediocre. Maybe polished but not enjoyable. And I suppose that it could also happen the opposite, that you could find it good or at least with a good potential IN SPITE of its problems. Maybe in that case you would have just stopped playing and waited for the fixes. Or tried a second playthrough right after they patched it, maybe also planned it in six months or so. I totally understand people who claim "Whatever, I am not going to play it again because it was mediocre". Because when I am done with a game I am done too, whether it is good or bad. Like I said,  the people I cannot understand are the ones who keep criticizing it ONLY for its lack of polishness at the release.

Um, DAI wasn't unplayable, though. Neither was MEA, for that matter. For some people, perhaps, but they must have been a minority, or the story would have made it into gaming tabloids pretty quickly.

One is more polished, one is less polished. DAI's launch was infinitely better than Andromeda's, and it didn't need patches for basic stuff like eye shaders. So no, I shouldn't forgive both, as they are not on the same level.

My god, OP! Exactly my thoughts!
Hey guys, I started my 1-st PT without any patches, and what? Yea, face animation was weird, eyes was very weird but story, adventure atmosphere captured me and I could not stop playing. For me Andromeda is absolutely Mass Effect, but new and fresh. And very solid RPG with awesome heroes, with long exciting story and amazing adventures.

70 hours in i cannot get most of the complaints. At all. 

Some thoughts not coherently written as i am on work and i am stealing time to write this wall of text. 

Been taking my time as i am about to go to kadara port but i only have eos 98%  and in havarl i did the vault yesterday.
My feelings as of now are that Andromeda is one of the best games this gen, next to witcher3 and Inquisition .
(mind you i ve played almost all AAA games and exclusives on my ps4, NOTHING compares to an rpg for me.)

This game sure it is different than previous Mass effects to the point it s not tightly story driven, but no open world is.
Taks are fetch quests named taks but at least all of the have something to say however ireelevant. there is some dialogue in them. This is an improvement since inquisition.

All other quests are on a high point from bioware for me. Especially Vault assignement on Havarl was a fantastic quest. Huge, complicate and made sense. It lietterally led me through the whole planet. i had a purpose. There is definitely improvement than Inquisition where the main story missions were all not tied to the various zones. 

I simply cannot hear any bad dialogue or bad deliveries (sure there are some but this game has endless dialogue everywhere in 
The dialogue is on par with Bioware;s consistency. I do nt hear so far any cringy lines. 
The delivery of the dialogue is greatly done although i can hear Vivienne and Cassandra's voice actor ( ) and mother Giselle in many npcs
The infamous Addison tired face was so blown out of proportions. Such a fuss was made from the content of the phrase " my face is tired" when in reality it 's just a line. When i first saw that scene i said " that was it??  that was it??  
this is nothing to whine about ". The facial animations although not perfect are not something to whine about. In e32017 all conferences i saw many AAA games with worse facial animations: State of decay, Assassins creed Egypt to name a few. Yet i bet my ass noone bothers to mention them.

I initialy did not like the Angara as the whole first contact with them was rushed but after a while i really like them, They are distict, they gave personality and they fit Mass effect.

The animations are on par with inquisition and this is not a bad thing. My ryder (a custom one whose face i really dig with the limited CC) takes some classic bioware cowboy epic poses whcih i cannot get enough. They are not fluid like lets say uncharted but these are games with different focus. Even witcher had similar quality animations in my eyes.

The companions: I like all of them, still i want to give them time in the future installments ( i want to believe theere will be).
In retrospec past trilogy characters grew as games passed by.
Still:
Vetra has all the caliber(no pun intended)  to be a next garrus. I really dig her. Love here voice actor - her voice - her reaction to romance is priceless
Peebee is great. She is NOT another Sera (nothing wrong sera imo). FANTASTIC VOICE OVER.
Suvi and Kalo are great.
Liam, i cannot see why people dislike him, is it the accent? He has his moments.
I like all the companion to the point i really want to know them. 

I vehemently and totally disagree with this comment (yes you have triggered me )

If we as customers allow Game Developers to get away with the notion that it is ok to release a game in a bad state because you can always patch it up after launch, you know what the result is?

How does telling new people to go back and play the game unpatched constitute telling developers that it's not OK to release a game in an unpolished state.  It doesn't connect that way.  If that's what you believe, then I'm just going to tell you bluntly to go back and play FO4 unpatched, TW3 unpatched, the ME Trilogy all unpatched, and here's the motherload one - Minecraft unpatched (and unmodded)... and then come back here and tell me again how MEA lived up to every bit of ridiculous criticism and metabombing it received even before it was released.

How does telling new people to go back and play the game unpatched constitute telling developers that it's not OK to release a game in an unpolished state.  It doesn't connect that way.  If that's what you believe, then I'm just going to tell you bluntly to go back and play FO4 unpatched, TW3 unpatched, the ME Trilogy all unpatched, and here's the motherload one - Minecraft unpatched (and unmodded)... and then come back here and tell me again how MEA lived up to every bit of ridiculous criticism and metabombing it received even before it was released.

Could you lend me your version of the game someday? Would love to play it. My version had some weird find-the-sudoku thing instead of a plot somehow.

Yes, we all shall man up, and play all games in their original state w/o patches, DLCs and mods. Preferably on the minimal requirement systems, or even better, under-spec. In fact, hooking alpha build up to a selection of root vegetables and projecting it on a clover leaf is the way to go. Anyone else is a sissy. 

That's the way the Spartans play video Games!