"New" infos: Grey morality and crafting...

I'd just like to point out that determining whether an action is paragon or renegade depends more on the (assumed) mentality behind it rather than the consequences, immediate or otherwise. I'm definitely not saying that I always agree with Bioware's determination of which is which, but I wouldn't say that not harming anyone is grounds alone for not being renegade, and I don't think the consequences of that choice in the next game (which even Bioware may not have known at the time) are either.

I understand why Bioware made saving Maelon's data renegade; they were using the logic that an extremely moral person would not use data obtained unethically (like evidence obtained illegally) and a pragmatist would. I think that's where I'd categorize them if I was locked into a binary system as well.

In real life, I'd definitely use the data (if I was trying to cure the genophage) because I feel like not using it would be morally worse, especially because it would render the deaths of the krogan who died for that data pointless.

As for ME:A, I'd bet it'll be like DA:I where it's more of an invisible morality system, at least as far as dialogue options are grouped. Whether the game keeps track of your personality, I don't know. It might be like DA2 where autodialogue is chosen based on your most used type of line. As an aside, I'm quite sad that opinionated autodialogue is making a return after DA:I made even neutral autodialogue a very rare occurrence

Because materials tend to be more or less in your path while adventuring, it makes it a lot harder for many people to resist picking them up, since they're close. This got very tedious very fast. If they were in specific areas of a map, it might be different, but that has its own problems.

The genophage doesn't even need to be cured in the Andromeda saga, in theory. If the krogan who went along with the expedition are smart enough not to want to kill each other too much (which you'd think the Initiative would want in its members), they should have exactly the same possible birth rates as humans. If those krogan teach their offspring correctly, the genophage would be a non-issue. Going to Andromeda is a second chance for krogan culture more than population growth, and it'll be interesting to see how that's handled.

Javik was an interesting character. He was one of the biggest advocates for the destroy option, other than Anderson. As far as I'm concerned, he was perfectly right about that.