So I started a new playthrough after taking a break

Considering it had the 2nd best opening for a Mass Effect game, I don't see them abandoning the brand. 

Done on the ps4. One of them a melee only run. Go to youtube and see others have speedruns with  faster times.

I realize the main story can be done in a very short time, but I highly doubt I would get any enjoyment from playing any game that way. Not just MEA. On my first run I try to be as completionist as possible without getting anal over erasing each and every fetch quest from my journal. On my NG+, which I never finished, I got picky choosy about what I wanted to do and what offered no enjoyment.

except just as it goes for a book, a movie, a play, a large piece of music  i don't think a whole game can be judged from the first 10% of game play . 
Did you buy it ? 
I don't know any stats regarding the matter, but i'd be curious to know how many didn't buy the game after the  $5 preview. 

My first PT was Normal difficulty, to learn the mechanics. Pretty fun. Second was hardcore, which I enjoyed more. Still, combat was not that difficult; did the whole thing with a Piranha and Ushior. Guns are pretty strong on Hardcore. One thing I liked was skipping "fast travel", and enjoying the banter from teammates in the Nomad. Every pair had their own style. Well done, Devs.

I decided to do Insanity, just to say I did it. And see if I could get Cora to warm up. Tried a scratch NG/Insanity from lvl 1, and hit a wall at lvl 17. Could not advance. Guns too weak, powers too weak, survivability too weak, my stuff wasn't working together, and my playstyle just wasn't good enough. That was a surprise.

So I am half way through NGplus/insanity. Insanity plays very differently from Hardcore. It takes all things working to make headway--guns, powers, combos, augments, passives, movement, strategy. And serious consequences of making mistakes. Everything has to work together. This is everything I hoped the game would be. 10/10.

I still plan to try NGscratch/Insanity. Maybe ignore that Cora bitch though.

And you have been an obnoxious ass since the old bsn.  Also you have not been paying attention the last couple of months I have actually been fairly critical of Andromeda.  Regardless I am entitled to my opinion.

The Mass Effect prophet of doom has spoken. 

Yeah that's not a closed minded mentality to have.

Ooh and now you want to be judgey this should be fun.

Just no. Don't even say this game deserves a 9. It most certainly does not. It's got some good gameplay mechanics and I personally like the crafting. The story however is uninspired and boring and for a game of discovery and exploration, it has very little of anything new or interesting to discover. I had more fun scanning planets in the old game and reading the history of a given planet than driving around endlessly in MEA and shooting the SAME.F**KING.MONSTERS over and over and over and over and over and over again. You can patch silly animations and asari clones and well..maybe not Krogans slapping each other like prepubescent siblings having a temper tantrum but you can't patch a story that even the in game characters don't care about.

There is not enough variety in this game and a silly grab-a** tone that feels out of place. Game play? 8 or 9 no problem. Story and characters? 5. Overall, patch until you turn blue, it doesn't deserve more than a seven and even that is generous. You give this game a nine, you need to go back and score other games that deliver a fantastic cohesive experience a higher score.

Sure, it's perfectly reasonable to decide for yourself that you don't like something after doing a quick preview; however, it's also more likely that someone else who stuck with it longer may very reasonably disagree with your assessment and dismiss it in favor of opinions coming from people who have played more of the game than that.  The problem is not that people who've only sampled 10% of the game don't like it.  The problem is that they feel strongly compelled to try to convince anyone who comes here stating that they like the game that they're idiotic for liking it or that they have bad taste... and other insults that you've flung their way on this website over the past couple of months.  Just as much as it is reasonable for someone to decide they don't like something, it is reasonable for others to decide that they do.