Anyone else feel the dialogue was just generally more believable or interesting before ME3 and futur

I want to expound a bit on some of the differences I see in the writing of ME1 vs. ME3 that I think really do contribute to why some people genuinely prefer ME1 to ME3.  I don't see it being a case of a writers not knowing what to write though, but more do to a change in the style of how the dialogue is presented in the two games.  ME1 was the introductory game and L'Etoile's writing includes a lot of long and detailed info dumps about numerous topics.  These long info dumps were presented to the player within dialogue wheels that were multi-tiered and had usually at least 3 "investigate" options (with further options inside them) and the player was required to "click" on these options to elicit the information out of the NPC.  In ME3, the dialogue wheels are not generally as multi-tiered and, when an NPC is just providing background information, the conversation continues with Shepard generally without any ability to interrupt it (i.e. autodialogue).  ME1 starts with a quick dialogue wheel (with Joker), but follows soon after with two very long multi-tiered dialogue wheels (with Pressly and Chakwas/Jenkins) that really are only about gathering background information about the story.  ME3, by comparison, handles all of that with a long automatic conversation between Shepard and Anderson, interrupted only briefly by 2 "quick-choice" dialogue wheels.  Many players, as a result, doesn't connect as strongly with Shepard in the beginning of ME3 as he/she does with Shepard in ME1.  Furthermore, ME3 doesn't go into the "technobabble" info dumps to the same degree as ME1 because a lot of that information was already introduced in ME1 and the entries simply appear in the codex for the player read at their leisure.  Again, this has the side-effect of "disconnecting" the player a bit from Shepard in ME3.

For the record, my personal preference is the latter (ME3) method, since I don't like having to click and click and click when no actual decision is being made and the selections will not make any difference in Shepard's characterization in the game or in the course of events during the game. However, having the interactive clicking does draw the player more easily into feeling invested in Shepard at the beginning of the game.  I do, however, think ME3 does reflect L'Etoile's absence with the lack of the long, convoluted, multi-tiered dialogue wheels.  ME2's prologue had a few and shorter dialogue wheels than ME1, but those wheels were a little longer than the ones in ME3's prologue.  It is the game that seemed to have the best "balance" in this regard and, hopefully, the dialogue wheels in ME:A will see a return of some multi-tiering... although I hope they don't go back to the degree of it they had in ME1.