Things you feel "Mass Effect: Andromeda" does well

I would be ok with that. I 've posted that I would have had Wrex tell Shepard up yours, and go after the cure on Virmire instead of having a standoff.

Yeah it was a bit off. I think it had more to do with them being Cerberus.

Only Shepard, Miranda and Jacob could really be considered "Cerberus". The rest of them are basically free agents. No one would implicate the Alliance if, say, a drell assassin or asari Justicar decided to just pop in and kill some people.

That's the funny part. If anything, he shouldn't be sending Shepard if being Cerberus is the problem.

I wouldn't have minded playing as someone other than Shepard for a mission. (Well, we do play as Joker for a few minutes, but not with a gun.) How about playing as Garrus  (Needs to be someone mandatory, and I don't think Hackett would have given Jack the job at that point in time.) 

I could see something like that working like having a small number of options out of the total roster, like Garrus, Zaeed, Thane and Samara. I'd pick Zaeed if it meant getting some prime cutscenes of him being all gruff and violent toward batarians. Trouble is they can all be killed in the suicide mission, possibly leaving you just Miranda or someone else. 

Like I said, I never heard any dialogue about scouts even when I talked with Drack on the tempest whether its in the kitchen or any other part of the ship. I've had him in the car and never heard the scouts being mentioned. 

Joker does say something in Arrival except its the same dialogue used when the swarm on Horizon causes interference with the comms.

I save them for two reasons. I figure that the exaltation of each MW species is inevitable, but I’m in no hurry to let the Kett perfect Krogan integration. Secondly, Raeka chose to face poor odds in an effort to save a few more of her people. I think she’s awesome, and she sounds like a Salarian Alec— a brilliant badass. Still, I saved the bulk of the Salarians and had to interfere with that Krogan exaltation.

Drack first mentions the scouts in the mess/kitchen conversation. He says he sent them out to find suitable land-grabs. He talks about them quite a bit throughout the game; but it’s easy to miss since it’s mostly via banter. It requires he be in the party; triggered BS not override his banter; SAM to STFU; etc... Easy to miss, and hardly a focal point before Tafeno.

Bradley would definitely be my second choice. I’d not pick the others, other than to see the result. Pathfinders need to do that job, and MEA Morda is scary. She, like Sloane, was a bit different in the novel. That novel Morda was pretty cool, but still terrifying and Krogan.

I saved Raeka 3/5 times.

I wasn't overly upset about losing the Krogan but I didn't like disappointing Drack.

Things they did well (with current patches obviously)
Jaal
Combat (though some of the powers seem to not function like they should-tactical cloak doesn't seem to add the damage bonus at all it seems)
Smaller open world areas!

Things that need improvement:
1. companion quests are just messy! it was kind of an interesting idea to have them to progress as the story does-but in function it just seems very disjointed and the parts don't always feel all that related. Plus you can't even do PeeBee's unless you want to be inappropriately propositioned (unless you wait till after you lock in with someone else which is not possible till much later than when the quest can be started).

2. the romance distribution is way too skewed and not just in base numbers-exclusive gay paths for both females and males are noticeably shorter and devloped with far less care. (Jill romance is not a great gay romance...imagine if Gil would have been the focus instead...what a concept!)

In his defense, Ryder is unable to use all squadmates.  Just like in the MET, only two squadmates are available at a time.