More likely that we're heading back to the Milky Way?

Maybe they'll leave Ryder and create another protagonist in Andromeda. That can be 5 to 10 years from now though.

Yeah, give them more freedom and less headache.  They can keep Ryder too without it being a sequel like how the MET was done.  It can be self-contained and not reliant on the previous game. 

It's not really the systems.  It's the distance between clusters.  You can move around a cluster using just FTL.  There are places to discharge and the systems are close enough together.  But clusters themselves are too far apart to go without the ODSY drive.

I defended BW for years and continue to do it because they make awesome game, but if they intend to just abandon the andromeda settings to cash on nostalgia. they started a story in Andromeda And I want it to be finished, you just don't leave a plot or a story there unfinished.

It would not fix any problem if they return to the milky way, they will piss off many people by imposing a canon ending. Its not because they return to the milky way that suddenly the people dissapointed by ME 3 ending will be brought back. Neither will it brought back the people dissapointed by MEA, because even among the one who hated the game wants to know the mystery of the andromeda galaxy. We already have our answer for the milky way, if they decide to never give it for the andromeda setting, it will piss off even more of their fans.

I for exemple did not liked DA 2, but I still wanted to see where the story goes from there. And Dragon age 2 was not received well by the gamers, and 3 years after its release, we saw dragon age inquisition that was much more a sequel to DA 2 than it was to DAO.

Not totally in terms of gameplay but especialy for story, Corypheus was the main villain of inquisition and he came from DA 2 legacy, the red lyrium that came from DA 2 was heavily present in DAI and especially with the red templars. The war against the qunari both introduced with the arishok and tallis dlc came back in the final part of the main story (tresspasser). The first act and introduction of inquisition is to put an end of the mage and templar war which is exactly where DA 2 ended. We get to see hawke during the story and not the warden from DAO. DAI is much more the child of DA 2 storywise.

BW do what they want to do, they don't abandon a settings when it does not suits them anymore. If they wanted to continue the milky way, they could have done it years ago but they did not. So if they want to go on in the andromeda galaxy, they will. No developper should tell the story their fans want them to tell, they should write the story they want to do not what is the most popular. So if they are forced to return to the milky way against their will because executives wants to bank on nostalgia... No I don,t see it and if BW does it, I will lose some respect for them.

Actually dragon age 2 was just as trashed as MEA, still got a story continuation.

It will be difficult to tell the story on Milky Way after the ending of Mass Effect 3, because the entire galaxy would be totally different depending on your final choice. That's why they created Andromeda, to run away from the main plot. Andromeda isn't quite the problem.

But I think the next game shouldn't have Ryder as the main character. They could invent another. Maybe a rebel that fled from the Initiative and is trying to create a base on their own? And you could choose how to deal with Initiative: Violence, sabotage or just ignoring them.
They did it in DA2, and The Warden was far more loved than Ryder. This would also let us be renegades again, since we are not tied to the Initiative

Anyway, I think Ryder is a weak main character and THAT could be changed.

Actually dragon age 2 was just as trashed as MEA, still got a story continuation.

And if my memory serves there was a lot of hate for DAI when it was released.