So if Sloan Kelly established a working outpost on Kadara....

OP, I think you bring the wrong example (because Sloane Kelly didn't establish anything, she overtook an existing port; and the Pathfinder's search for Meridian to control the terraforming network is surely needed for long-term success) but I think I know what you want to criticize: with the exception of Khi Tasira, Meridian (many together is also not optimal), Havarl and Aya it is awfully strange that the Pathfinder in its role is never the first Initiative member to set its foot on a planet.

Eos/Eladaan/Kadara/H047c have all already seen Milky Way people. Both races introduced knew about the Initiative before meeting Ryder. So no first contact (other than on a personal level) and in the side-story of finding habitable planets the Pathfinder seems to be always late, when that would've seemingly been the chance to explore the unknown. So even though the OP worded it differently and had the wrong example, I agree that the role of the Pathfinder "finding stuff" isn't presented well and should be highly improved in a sequel - if we see one. Being the first to discover new planets/lifeforms/races is something special and should happen more often in the Pathfinder role. But that should be easy to implement in MEA2.

Let the Initiative build on the outposts already established and we go off into the unknown of the Andromeda galaxy.

Edit: forgot about the Turians on Havarl, so we can even scratch that planet from the list.

I agree, with this point of view. The "finding role" of the Pathfinder is not it's main role. It's perhaps what was planned with some of the many systems in the sector. Who knows?

Why do people assume opinion = fact? Just because one person didn't like a game, doesn't mean other people didn't.

There's no such thing as a perfect game because no game is ever going to be 100% loved in all aspects by everyone who plays it. Why would MEA be any different?

Even if Gamermd didn't enjoy I believe she won't shove that opinion down the throats of people who did enjoy it.

My, my... Are we not done here?

wow i thought you were actually someone worth having a discussion with. guess not

Cool story bro! Now what does that have to do with Sloane and Kadara?

Nobody offered a sound response? My only theories for your ability to say that is that you either haven't read anyone's response or so many people blocked you that you CAN'T read their response, because there's no real way you can say that at this point with the amount of evidence mounted against your "premise".

Personally I think it was on a higher par than most of the Shepard Trilogy. Definitely better than ME2, on par with ME1 but ME1 is let down by its gameplay, and ME3 beats MEA.

I agree with that. Adding up everything together this is how I personally rank the Mass Effect games from best to worst. 
ME3 > MEA > ME1 > ME2

Especially her third video sums up my own feelings to a t.