Fears for ME5. Obviously there may be spoilers!

My main concern is that Bioware devs do not have what it takes to deliver an engaging and compelling sci-fi story. ME1 story was based on a philosophical and scientifical principle and dilemma of sorts with lots of sci-fi quirks all around the place, all of which IMO went downhill right through ME2 and up to the end of ME3, where the devs tried to bring another main philosophical thought into play, but failed because of the botched execution and lack of proper set up. ME:A was quite a disaster in terms of an interesting main plot IMO - there was a foundation there, but simply not enough of it.

I'd really like to see Bioware devs to come up with a really interesting main concept/scientifical idea/non-trivial philosophical question as the core and develop an interesting plot around it, where the story isn't linear and clear right from the start, so that we as players see some surprizes here and there that don't feel forced or unnatural. You know, basically just a good sci-fi story with some suspense and a (healthy, not overbearing)sense of mystery.

Another concern is unwillingness or inability to connect Milky Way and Andromeda. I see lots of comments here where people can't imagine how to bring both galaxies together in terms of story and I fear Bioware might be just as creatively bankrupt.

This lol. I can certainly imagine ways they can connect the two galaxies but I fundamentally disagree with the concept of it. Sorry

What is more creatively bankrupt in my view is having one of the best settings in gaming and not having a clue how to organically build on it.  

Not to mention ruin the whole sense of "exploring the frontier" they were trying  to set up to begin with.

If anything, they should make it a one-off fluke the AI even worked to begin with.  No way back, no way other arks can join them. 

In several thread posts I've mentioned the possibility of ExoGeni being a major player to connect both galaxies (if it were to be done).

ExoGeni is mentioned in Andromeda via Eos in one of the forward station texts (its a drunken like text with celebration), and also indirectly by Liam in regards to terraforming a planet naturally by smashing a ice comet into it (ExoGeni via ME1). So they already have some sort of footing there, and in a setting where new colonization efforts are heavy, it stands out.

In the Milky Way, they are the PERFECT antagonist to help rebuild things across the galaxy. If succesful over the years, a game that takes place in the future would have them be astronomically wealthy.

Exogini is also known to dabble in messed up things, such as the Thorian(ME1) or Prothean tech(ME2/Blue Suns). It easily can replace Cerburus as the direct human led antogonist group (and as the Illusive Man said...Cerberus is more than an organization, its an IDEA). Also finding or creating a Mass Relay, especially if they already have ties in Andromeda (they may HAVE a QEC unknown to the Initative...), fits their colinization stuff.

On top of that, it opens up more possibilities for Mass Effect as a sci fi, no longer limited to just military stuff (as the trilogy, including Cerberus black ops, is ALL military stuff). And either Shepard (who already has history) and/or Ryder (who is an explorer regardless) works as a protagonist if they don't want a new one.

Yeah i can't stand Bioware's push towards flavours of bland saminess. Would love it if they would go back to having a broader range like(Paragon, Neutral and renegade)

True to an extent. I didn't especially love or hate it. It was just boring. Boring combat. Boring villain. Cookie-cutter companions. Paper-thin plot you can easily poke holes in. 

Like Mass Effect itself, it had potential. And maybe if it wasn't saddled with Mas Effect lore, it might have had a better story, at least. 

But at least it wasn't ME3. That game wasn't boring, but that ending still pisses me off a decade later.  Maybe it's better to me forgettable than despised?

What the ME3 endings needed was a reminder that this was a game, and not a philosophical treatise.

But yes, ME3 also was very much on rails, for all the "your choices matter" talk. Most obviously in the conversations, which Shepard had very little input in, and those dialogue choices we were allowed were quite literally binary. That sorta took away from the moments, knowing they're just set pieces. Movie props, which I'm more spectator than participant.

Biower has proven again and again that moar time does not equal better product.

The problem was leadership and vision.

Hence all the mucking around with the various games, switching engines, going off on tangents, and not executing a clear defined plan.

Just waiting until the last minute, then compressing all that needs to be done and hoping for the best.

Then crying about burn out and how mean customers are.

I would say they likely did, but it was too late to build some hocus pocus ships to travel to another galaxy. The only reason why it happened for this cycle is because Garson woke up one morning with a wild hair up her backside wanting to sightsee another galaxy years before the reapers showed up. Then out of the blue, a benefactor decides to give her x amount of resources for her to finish her project.

That's easy. Look at what was controlling them. It was created by Loser Leviathan who suffered from politician syndrome, the big head.

Ah yes, Jein "I can't balance my checkbook" Garson. She wanted to go sightseeing to another galaxy while taking a ragtag group of refugees with her. Maybe it was for the best. Look at the mess they created for themselves.

Don't forget it can kill you.

 Even if it was titled Andromeda, it still would have been critiqued harshly because it would have Bioware's name on it.

That's the problem, the benefactor. They/he/she/it knew about something something was bad/big/whatever however long ago, but decides to fork over a vast amount of resources to Garson. Would the benefactor sit around doing nothing while the reapers harvest the galaxy if Garson didn't come up with her sightseeing trip?

The protheans are the true heroes of Mass Effect not Shepard. This cycle should be bowing to Javik the Great.  Of course the question is how did the scientists  know how to alter the signal? I bet one of the prothean scientists name was plot.