Why didn't Bioware offer more dialogue choices in Andromeda?

Just because you don't like what he had to say makes him neither. That's fine if you don't like the guy. But for you to call him a hack and say he was correct in the same sentence is a fucking joke.

Oh no we're venturing off topic again...
I don't think Schreier is a hack, has he actually been wrong about anything? I didn't like the news over no Andromeda DLC, but I didn't think it was unexpected. I did not care for BioWare not announcing it until August.
It's understandable there wouldn't be any, the team that made it was brought to Motive. I still think there could be Andromeda 2, it just won't be a direct sequel. And I've given reasons why before, lots of new aliens, another reboot that's loosely connected but still attracts new and old players, yada yada.

Now, it's easy to forget several ME1 dialogue choices gave the same answer, but just increased paragon or renegade by a little. Also, was there a reason for Ryder to say anything more to Suvi? I picked the option that agreed with her last time, and felt it still left wiggle room and didn't shove my character into a corner. In other words, the dialogue options are fine.

I think Ryder just does what most people would do, so there isn't the hero fantasy there that people have with Shepard.

On the Schreier being a hack, I would say his first article was fine.  The problem I have with him was his articles and actions after that, which for some people I can see making him look like a hack.  For me it just caused me to pass anything he writes for I don't want to support that behavior of a person that seems to be no better then a lot of the pandering YouTube videos.

With the DLC announcement BioWare's hands were tied, plenty of the developers said "we will say more when we can", there is nothing more they could have done.  This is the one thing with Andromeda where I am the most sure it was EA's fault.

With Mass Effect 1 I think there are just a lot of nostalgia googles where people want to believe BioWare was somehow so superior to what they are now, which from my perspective isn't the case.  Jade Empire felt even more unfinished to me then Andromeda for the first half of the game was great, but after that it felt like they just shoved everything they needed to finish the story and ignored everything else.  Even major portions of Dragon Age: Origins felt the same as Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect: Andromeda with Deep Roads and The Fade, to me that shows they never made the open world style game well even prior to EA.  What saved it was the other areas that weren't like that.

Who is this “us”? There are examples of objectively bad games (Ride to Hell Retribution, E.T, Superman 64 etc..) this is not one of them. In your subjective opinion it is and others share that opinion and that’s fine. However do not treat it as fact.

Uhhh, the gaming population, you dope.

So you and your friends are the whole gaming community gotcha. Stop being such an ass. You don’t have to agree with me as I’ll never agree with you. But don’t insult me.

Maybe the Reddit/YouTube population, but I doubt those groups are really representative of the entirety of the gaming population if anything those groups I think are the minority otherwise Battlefront 2 wouldn't have the sales numbers it did.

In the quotation being discussed here, what is questionable is, at best, he is just repeating an opinion of his source... that "too much time was spent discussing high-level ideas."  It's not really backed up with anything in the way of facts as it is an entirely subjective concept.  What amount of time is too much, too little, or just right?  Without being able to judge either the creedibility of his source or his source's disposition towards Bioware, we can't really judge whether or not the source's opinions are fair or unfairly biased.  For example, if his source was a person who was fired from Bioware, the opinions that source expressed could be unduly harsh.

... and wouldn't either of those be a good thing?

You're not wrong about the disappointment. 

I find there are plenty of people doing just as many "mental gymnastics" to justify the game was bad or a flop too.