Struggling to get through Andromeda after LE Mass Effect trilogy (LE-MET)

Yep there are those in every ME game - but some of them are the ones we love or like Then again there is 10 years in between, a lot has changed. I didnt get those stalker/creepy/sexologist-attacker stuff so much in MEA, its more natural I think.

Many of them? Gushing years later? If anything there is more from the va's for the trilogy than anything from any of the va's in MEA.

I never got the complaint about the lack of new species. They were very upfront about how this game would be set just in one cluster, instead of a third of the galaxy like ME1 was. That’s be like a MW game based only in the Hades Gamma Cluster not having all the MW races: of course it wouldn’t. As the games went in and we entered more and more of Andromeda, more new races would come.
Plus ME2 never gets criticized for introducing as many new species as MEA. It only had Vorcha, Drell, and Collectors as new just like MEA had Kett, Angara, and Remnant (all far more developed than the ME2 ones).

And you hit the nail on the head. This game was doomed to panning the moment it wasn’t continuing Shepard or fixing the endings.

Hopefully BioWare ignores those people.

Honestly, the LE was a mistake. It brought all the things that a decade of time buried right into the forefront again. 

ME 2 had the Vorcha, Drell, Collectors, Yahg, and it expanded on the Geth tremendously fully fleshing them out as a unique and 'alien' species. Even ME3, which was just about the Reaper invasion built up over the previous two games, managed to bring in the Protheans and Leviathans. 

Andromeda brings in the Angara, which were designed around being cosplay-able above all else, who are about as 'alien' to humans as a person from Denmark is an 'alien' to a person from the UK. And they bring in the Khett, who are a knock-off version of the Collectors that manage to be about as effective as a Saturday morning cartoon villain when it comes to being a threat to the player or the Initiative (save when the plot magically teleports the big bad on board the Hyperion; and even then he doesn't even inflict that much damage to a facility completely lacking in any offensive weaponry).  

The Remnant have even less personality and characterization than the ME 1 Geth; being mindless drones controlled by sudoku for as far as the game reveals about them; and could be almost in the same category as the nameless xeno fauna you kill for xp throughout the game.

I totally get why you say that.

I think the problem is that those things from a decade ago aren’t so much buried as they’ve been parked. It’s inevitable that whichever direction future ME went in, all that baggage is coming back out again. Ignoring it doesn’t work. They tried that with Andromeda and it couldn’t have gone much worse.

I honestly think ME is in the last chance saloon with WC. To that end I can’t see BW not running to safe ground. They can’t, or won’t take a gamble like MEA was.

That being said, I also don’t believe that MEA should be totally ignored either.

The Yahg were a single character in a DLC that barely expands on them. They are smart but super violent so are quarantined. That's it. So to use MEA, they are closest to one of the Kett vassal races, maybe the Jardaan. 

Saying the Kett are just a knockoff Collector is an insult to the Kett. For one thing, unlike the Collectors they actually have a developed culture while the bugs are just puppet husks. 
And the Angara are very developed, with us exploring their culture far better than the OT does with most of its since it actually shows us instead of just telling us. The fact they aren't alien enough for you is irrelevant, especially since you have the same complaint about pretty much every non-Rachni species. 

So the Remnant are like the Collectors. Thanks for helping my point. 

Oh sure, but it would have been a lot more minor with most people going "Are you still going on about that?" to those who carry that baggage. 

Except continuing with Shepard or making a canon ending or whatever isn't safe ground. It's just replacing one dissatisfied group with another. Meanwhile unlike MEA, it sacrifices a large part of the soul of the franchise in the process and will forever trap them. 

Will Continue is my guess. So same game as NME or ME5. 

Will Continue.

From what I've been reading and hearing, it was a good thing Bioware released a remaster. It's getting a lot of positive feedback. It looks like it might outsell MEA. EA will be pleased by that.