Curious about the complaints surrounding Andromeda.

Still, the amount of humorous lines delivered in the game is somewhat controllable, depending on what lines in what circumstances the player selects for Ryder... and it's not by just going with blanket professional or blanket casual.  Sometimes it's the professional line that avoids the humor, sometimes it's the emotional one, and sometimes even the casual one.  Logical responses, more often than not, are not humorous.  The psych profiles built into this particular game appear to be far more subtle and fairly complex than in the other ME games... which were the realm of clearly binary choices that players complained endlessly about. 

While the personality of the squad members is not so much controlled by the player, this somewhat reflects reality.  In any given group, you may in fact wind up with people who are "irritatingly" cracking jokes all the time.  As these games get larger and more and more open, there is bound to be stuff in the game that is there to appeal to some players but just doesn't appeal to other players.  That's a pitfall to trying to make a game "open" to all personal tastes.

If it bothers you, it can be avoided... admittedly, not completely... but to a degree.  Some people did not like the heavy tone of the original ME3 and they were in a similar boat of being able to avoid some of the worst of it, but not all of it.  So now the pendulum has just swung to the "other" group for a bit... There is really nothing wrong with Bioware catering to a different sort of player every now and then.  It's OK to not like it, but it doesn't make it an "bad design choice" to have utilized it.  It's just a choice that doesn't appeal to you and others who share your tastes.  It is also a choice that does appeal to some others who happen to have different tastes from you.

Even so, squad banter is also, to a degree, controllable - the player can easily cut a lot of it off by driving quickly through the areas that trigger it. The Squad mates who the player finds irritating can frequently just be skipped over when making rounds throughout the ship or in the various ports of call in the game.  There are some options for all of us... not perfect options, but options nonetheless.