Salarian eyes

I could've sworn the blinking issue was amended in a patch, but I could be wrong.

Yep. BW Montreal sucked.

Wow...

... and you probably failed to notice the massive number of details they did pay attention to.  Like the fact that on PeeBee's loyalty mission, Drack does not fit into the safety harness on the escape pod, so he leaves it unlatched and you can hear it banging throughout the conversation between Ryder and PeeBee.  Too busy making a big deal of PeeBee's eyebrows... Failing to note as well that she is the only Asari we've ever met with an Elcor father.  It could indeed be a "rare genetic mutation." - an intentional detail difference inserted into the game to make us wonder whether the Asari are really that certain that they do not take on any DNA from the other races they mate with.

Think what you like.  I REALLY do not care.  The fact remains, they may have missed some details.  They did pay attention to others.  You're the one making the blanket statements here.  One cannot prove what they're intent was either way.  Only they know that. 

Intentional or not, the ME:A Asari did not go over well with many of their fans.  I think that's a pretty accurate statement.  Still, it might have been an oversight or intentional, but I highly doubt it was due to not caring about details.  They put too much effort into too many other details in the game for me to say that they didn't care about such things.

By the way, my comment above was about PeeBee's eyebrows possibly being intentional.  I said nothing about the cloned faces at all.

What exactly is the bull shit?  It's a fact stated in ME:A that PeeBee's father is an Elcor.  It's a fact that, if Drack is taken on PeeBee's loyalty mission, he does not latch the safety harness and the sound of it banging can be heard throughout the conversation with Ryder.  Other squad taken on that same mission do latch the safety harness and the banging is not heard in those cases.  The game responds to 100s of minute details as the player changes their playthroughs.  Bioware staff obviously cares about details.  It's bull shit that people accuse them of not caring just because they missed a few or were too rushed to meet EA's release deadline to correct some simple mistakes.  So, thanks for the meme.   It's just soooo astute and erudite.

So, the actual bottom line here is that you just care more about different details than they do.  It's still bull shit to accuse them of just not caring about details in general.  Whether or not Salarians blink up or down or even sideways for that matter does NOT override the fun I have playing this game.  How Salarians blink has no bearing on anything remotely of importance within the story.  It's not referenced in relation to any sort of tactical advantage or in any plot line within the Trilogy.  It was only an arbitrary art-style decision made when they were first rendered.

Whether or not the game is fun to play is the detail I care most about... and Andromeda has been fun to play.  I don't get hung up on finding multiple new ways to dis the developers about a game for which they've already pulled their  support and have moved on to developing their next game.  I care that, if that game gets trashed in the same petty ways Andromeda got trashed that EA will likely shut down Bioware and we'll never see a DA4.  I care that staff leaving Bioware after completing tasks (like Drew leaving after completing his work on Anthem) might actually be a sign that EA is winding down Bioware already by not assigning new projects to the staff and allowing attrition to get some of them out the doors before they shut (something I've seen done by many companies in the past).

Those are the details I really care about.  IMO, Bioware wrote the lore and Bioware has every right to change it.  They certainly have the right to make alterations to such arbitrary art-style decisions.

Furthermore, nobody seems to mind when modders change the lore.  For example, the official lore is that, under no circumstances, did a male Shepard become involved with Kaidan romantically until ME3.  Yet, modders were perfectly find with making a mod that allowed for such a relationship in ME1.  In ME:A, it's official lore that PeeBee has a tattoo across her eyes.  There is even dialogue in the game that says as much, yet modders are perfectly fine with making a mod that removes it.  In ME2, it's official lore that certain squadmates were recruit late in the game, but that hasn't stopped modders from making so those squad mates can be taken on missions that come before they were recruited and even on the missions that recruit themselves.  There seems to be no limit on how much modders can mess with the official lore of a game... yet, when the developers change even a minor detail, they get trashed unendingly online for it.  Definitely a double-standard there.

Again, my reference above was directly towards PeeBee's eyebrows, not the Asari clones.  PeeBee has eyebrows by intent, not because they ran out of time to change her model.  Dialogue in game indicates that she's different than other Asari because her father is an Elcor.  The dialogue also suggests that such a pairing is a very rare occurrence among the Asari because of the different energy levels between the two species.  There is also dialogue in the game mentioning her tattoo across her eyes.  Neither of those dialogues are the result of an oversight.  They had to be planned and recorded well before the game was released.  There was meant to be some sort of story there that was not about covering it up because some fans didn't like it.  The clone faces on the Asari are a different matter entirely and indeed probably due to their running out of time to individualize them more.  Personally, the clone faces don't bother me.  It would have been nice if they had the time to finish the game properly, but they didn't... water under the bridge.

Lore-breaking as to how that lore was presented in the MET... but it's also presented that Aethyta disagreed with that lore (she got her father's mouth though, etc)  Matings with Krogan are apparently not that uncommon since we see other Asari that have mated with Krogan in the game (e.g. Charr and Ereba).  Aethyta also mated with a Hanar (and judging from Liara's reaction, that is pretty rare)... so, maybe Aethyta saw something different in her daughter from that pairing that caused her to think differently about Asari reproduction.

It's possible that Bioware intends to drive the story in a direction that causes the Asari to discover something new about themselves... some long-held belief they had about their reproduction that they subsequently discover was in error.  That happens in human medicine all the time (Heck, it was reported that doctors discovered a new human organ just this past month - something that we've long believed wasn't an organ turns out that it is).  in ME:A, there is clearly a story line that the Angara long believed something about how they were created that turned out to be completely false.  Possible, that Bioware intended to have the Asari discover something similar about themselves.  There's also discussion between PeeBee and Jaal about what makes the Asari different from the Kett.  Where, potentially, is that leading?  We don't know and, now, we may never know.

That doesn't follow. Whatever does or doesn't come from the father, surely the mother contributes something