Curious about the complaints surrounding Andromeda.

Well, you did state "incredibly flawed" as if it was an objective fact rather than a personal judgement. Just plain "flawed" would have worked fine, or even "seriously flawed," but "incredibly" is a bit much.  What sort of response did you expect? 

My biggest problem was all the lore breaking out of the gate, just to avoid having to address the ME3 ending. This story could have easily occurred in the 90% of unexplored Milky Way as an attempt to flee and hide from the Reaper threat. Or eve one of the smaller clusters surrounding the Milky Way.

In a nutshell? It's an ok game but a terrible Mass Effect game.
People keep saying it's the first game of a new trilogy, not the fourth game in the series, so they should get a pass. I say bullshit. If that's the case take Mass Effect out of the title.
The animations are a red herring. BioWare stand or fall on their characters, dialogue and story. They fell hard this time.

The dialogue tree should have more options, period. It's annoying when the only options you have is to pick how you want to say something and not what you want to say.

The game had its weak points but for whatever reason I enjoyed the heck out of it. I see a lot of comments about people being mad at paying top dollar for a new game and feeling like they got a beta. I paid top dollar for a game I enjoyed the heck out of. I feel like it was well worth every cent to me, but  then again, my  perspective is unique to me in that I had been playing an MMO with my guy for almost a year, bored out of my mind, had come to hate that game and really was wanting a new one. That is when I noticed all the hype for MEA. While I never intended to get it thinking it would probably suck, I ended up quite liking what I saw in trailers. I thought facial expressions looked strange off the bat. Sara's in some of the takes she was in - well she looked bizarre and goofy to me - but I ignored that and focused a lot on fun looking combat, that I would probably play the male version, and whatever else looked good. I was so excited for  the game, you have no idea. But for me, I was bored to death with what I was doing, was wanting a new game to love, and along came this one where my expectations were so low that it could only go up and it did, tremendously. 

Perspective is important. And context for ones experience. I have no problem seeing how people who thought it would be like the second coming given that MET was overall stellar were massively disappointed. However, I do wonder why some have stayed on their unhappy focus for so long. I wish I could share my fun with them. 

There is that video from Jim Sterling where he rants about how gamers are especially vicious about disappointment with a game and want others to hate it too and attack people who like the game they hate. A lot of people don't understand this. I think it's not so inconceivable or incomprehensible when you put it in context of people loving something and being really excited for it, possibly for a long time, having very high hopes for it, then it shows up and their expectations were so high the game likely would not meet them, but add to that a game that had shortfalls beyond the OT, one that in general is good but had issues on release and doesn't really live up to the OT but still is good nevertheless.  Those people are going to feel really bad about it. All that expectation and excitement for what feels to them now like a huge disappointment. This is why I think any company that hypes the hell out of their games is rather dense. Better to just show up and  say here it is like Bethesda did with fallout 4 and create short term hype than to have it go on for years. Right now, if I were running BW, I would STFU about Anthem and not get into any discussion about it other than vague stuff (which they tried to do with MEA but they still showed up and showed enough to hype it). That's dangerous ground. Disappointment stings and people can get very mean about their disappointment.

Inside doesn't work unless you're actually going to address the ME3 final state-- not just the endings, but stuff like the fate of the quarians too. And if you're going to address that, then you don't need the ME:A plot in the first place.

"Lore breaking" is a bit hyperbolic. The challenges of getting to Andromeda are known to be soluble in the MEU.

Another issue I forgot about was one with Peebee when it came down to some bits of her dialogue. Granted she's one of my favorite Andromeda characters (I romanced her) and she's not supposed to be a typical asari, but some of what she said felt....out of place. Like, how does she know what a monkey is, what a bear is, what Mardi Gras is, and the whole "yar har har pirates" thing on Kadara? I mean I don't think she's ever been to Earth before so how does she know about some of that stuff?

I also agree that the open world design hurts the narrative flow. I would have liked to have smaller planets with more focused main quests for each, less repetition with the outposts, vaults and architects, and absolutely no camps of respawning enemies.

H-047c was an area with very little to do in it, but it was so much fun driving the nomad on it! I love the Nomad so much.

I realize it's because of cost (voice actors and whatnot) but it's amazing going back to a game like BG2 and occasionally seeing 3-5 full sentence options to choose from.

True. AFAIK Bio invented that.in BG2.