[SPOILERS] My (long) Andromeda final review

Uh no you didn't. You could shoot their head off. There's even an achievement for it. You shoot through the hole in the shields.

Which is difficult for the average bad player. Much easier to use pull or singularity on them. 

As I said, when you were facing heavily-shielded or heavy armored enemies, or enemies that required a specific approach (like those guys with a shield from Cerberus) your companions' powers had to be used, especially because I played as a vanguard, which have no real power against armor or shield. 

Vanguard especially required a good use of companions' powers because if you charged carelessly it could end in a quick death. 

I'm a pretty poor shooter player as well, mainly because aside from Mass Effect, I don't play shooter games. I don't doubt many players could solo the entire MET without ever using companions' powers, but that doesn't change the point that the fact you could actually use them against specific enemies already make them more useful than in ME:A. And as a pretty poor shooter player, I found ME:A to be laughable easy, especially because of consumables. 

Vanguard especially required a good use of companions' powers because if you charged carelessly it could end in a quick death. 

What? Vanguard is the most over powered class in the game, especially in ME3.
I consider myself an average player in ability, certainly nothing to write home about (as you can see in the gifs) and even I found vanguard laughably easy.

At the moment i am replaying ME1 and it's SHOCKING how much better in almost every aspect this 10yrs old game is...

I said difficult, not impossible. Why would you try to shoot through a tiny hole if you can just use pull or singularity? Just to get the achievement, but after that, there's not much purpose on that. Your companions can handle it much better. 

You can just charge, nova, shotgun on ME3 to infinity - and you invincible for most of it.

i'm doing a MEA Novaguard for the first time now, and  i'm near the end of the game . I find it similar to ME3  except i use more ammo. In ME3 you could pretty much play the entire game without ever firing a shot due to the ridiculous CD's.
So yes,  easy in both instances .

They should have kept the ME2 Vanguard style, just the right cooldown to make you think instead of witlessly charge everything ... and of course Ze Claymore !!!

But i must reiterate i still enjoy the game. 

As I said, Vanguard is good when you know how to use it. You can't just charge a heavy mech without cover around. That's why you need companions to take down shields/armor for heavy opponents.

If you think Vanguard was easy, it's MUCH easier on ME:A, because you can just charge and melee/shotgun everything and use consumables or jump away.