A look back. I like this game.

I like it too. I just may have really liked it with further higher quality DLC, and I don't love it like the trilogy.

But sure I'm not with those hating it and considering it abomination. Its flawed and inadequate to my expectations. That doesn't mean its just bad. I would have forgiven most things if the patching cycle was more substantial (including changing asari), there was a quality DLC cycle, and a new and improved (but not overly ambitious again) game set for, say, 2020-2021 soon enough after DA4. Instead the patches were just okay, the DLC cycle didn't happen, and we have no news of the future (but that's more expected so far).

Its good enough for me to still occasionally play my NG+ Insanity SP playthrough, and continue to grind Bronze/Silver matches to fill out more Uncommon/Rare rewards in MP. Maybe I'll go further with SP next year. Maybe I'll grind into Silver/Gold and Rare/Ultra-Rare with MP next year. Maybe not.

Its a 7 , which along with my attachment to the franchise, means I keep playing. Just without the gusto of before.

I do like the game. I haven't played for a while but I will be going back to it soon. My biggest gripe was the announcement of no SP DLC. I had just finished my first playthrough and that announcement turned me off to the game for a bit.

I like it too. It is a shining example for BioWare to reflect on what could have been. Playing the demo, there were times I did find myself having actual fun.

I still didn't like it overall, but that's not the point of your thread.

I like the game as well and will probably continue to enjoy playing it for some time to come yet.  I really like the nomad banter also.  I am still triggering conversations I haven't heard yet quite frequently.  It would be even better if it weren't quite so buggy.  Sorry, I just had a very interesting conversation between my squad mates start up OK, but then one of the squad mate's lines failed to trigger so the other squad was talking to themselves through the whole thing... so I only got half the conversation.  Now I can't get that conversation to trigger again.  It's left me a little frustrated.

Wish I had your experience, because, I really liked some parts (Kadara, especially meeting with Reyes Vidal).
But I got anxiety even before the game started with Alec dying and the first Vault... I just had too much claustrophobia (yes, I really did, I am quite sensitive) and realized I can not go trough them and can't continue the story.
If I could somehow only do one vault, I think I could play the game again. I enjoyed the free roaming and the fighting style, and I liked the angaras.

Andromeda wasn't bad game, it was just not good enough for Mass Effect franchise.

I started playing at the beginning of this month. I was very conflicted to start my playthrough, because of all the bad rep this episode got, and the no dlc and hiatus announcements.
I played the previous episodes for hundreds of hours, multiplayer included, so i decided to finally start playing, thinking of just take a look.
I am now 72 hrs into the game (at 47% game completion), and while I agree you can say it's a flawed game, especially in some departments, man... I'm surprised but how much I'm enjoying it.
I can see my self playing for at least another 30/50 hrs, and I haven't even touched the multiplayer.
I get why this game got such a bad rep, from what i saw and read, the launch wasn't very smooth and the game was too buggy. Also expectations were probably over the roof for this one.
So far I'm having a great time, i love exploring the planets and vaults, the gameplay is very solid, and once you get the crafting, it is very interesting to setup many different builds.
I still have to see the story, i've seen many complaints, but so far it isn't that bad, I'm actually enjoying it for what it is, definitely a different vibe from the trilogy.
I've encoutered few bugs here and there, but nothing game breaking.

That's because the game is indeed, quite likable.

Another alternative for getting through that one vault would be to use the skips inside the Eos vault used by the speedrunners of the game.

www.speedrun.com/masseffectandromeda/guide/ssq2r

After you're done with that one, you don't have to do any more vaults.

I do as well and MEA is staying on my SSD.

Sounds like every bioware game ever made.