Things you feel "Mass Effect: Andromeda" does well

I liked the game quite a bit and generally preferred a lighter atmosphere. I wish the adventurous spirit was illustrated in the game better.  The why did you come here thing was answered far too often with a variation of nothing better to do.  Having a set back came across as an unforeseen circumstance, these people with an adventurous spirit where like my accommodations are lacking I clearly asked for 2 fresh towels every morning along with a bowl of fresh fruit, I want to speak with a manager about our 600 year cruise.   Ryder himself had it with the right dialogue options but even then it felt a bit muted.  I write in an excuse for most people that a year of failure will beat people down.  I hope when/if there is a MEA2 with successes happening people will show it more clearly.

Peoples attitudes reminds me of something I did like a lot.  Addison and Tann and how they developed.  Many of the other back characters were fairly static, Kesh was Kesh from start to finish, morda was morda etc.  Addison was a raging jerk from the get go but clearly was trying to improve relations with ryder as the story went on. Depending on your take it was either honest or just politics.  Tann IMO really grew.  He was always unlikable personality wise but what first came across as desperation and rolling the dice on you because he had no other option eventually seemed to develop into a character who knew he was out of his depth but was going to stick with it and do his best, admitting his flaws and trying to overcome them to the best of his abilities. Usually background characters have no evolution like that outside some "surprise" twist, this was steady solid character development for both of them.

I didn't know we could piss off Kesh so completely. Which actions does this require?

Most important I would guess is to save the salarian pathfinder and then make her ambassador to the Nexus. Saving Vorn and/giving Morda the drive core does not soften her.

Gotcha. I can see that. "Same old BS." I nearly always save the scouts, and do always pick Moshae Sjefa as "ambassador".

I think it depends on the order things are done.  I never save the scouts (too much fun to fight) but do everything else favorably for the Krogan.  If I've resolved all Krogan matters including Drack's loyalty mission by the time I speak to the Nexus leaders after rescuing the Salarian ark I usually get something like "you've done your part for the Krogan...which is more than I can say for most."  If some of that is unresolved she'll get snippy with you.  Eventually I want to do a pro-Tann, anti-Krogan playthrough which is going to be tough since Drack is awesome and the Krogan are my favorite ME race.  I'm curious to see how much those conversations change as a result.

I see. Never encountered since I don’t go back and talk to Nexus leaders. I’ll have to scope it out on my current run.

the disk makes a fancy coffee coaster.

I like that if you save the scouts, you don't get behemoths on Meridian. I do wish that ME3 did something similar with the rachni, like if you wiped them out, ravagers don't exist.

Watch out we have edgelord here!

The only time I saved them is when I did a speedrun. 

What bothered me about the choice is when Drack or another squadmate would mention scouts. What scouts? I never heard any dialogue about any scouts being mentioned at all until that choice came up. Why couldn't Drack talk about them when talking with him on the tempest? I went on youtube and saw that it was some random banter that is heard in the Nomad from Drack. I did what the person in video did. Drove around for a bit without Drack ever mentioning the scouts. 

For the ambassador thing, I chose each of the contestants once, but chose Bradley more than the others

Everything.

I agree.  My first playthrough where I wiped out the rachni and also killed the breeder, I wasn't expecting to see any ravagers after that point in the game.  It was nice that they thought about that consequence in ME:A.