"Optional" areas and no level scaling make game too easy?

Cast your mind back to the days of Dragon Age: Origins, DA2, the entire ME trilogy.

Even at lowest difficulty, the game could get hard if you were underlevelled. You would die if you go to Orzammar first.

Every single mission, even every single DLC, would just boost you up the right amount to take down the Archdemon, Meredith/Orsino, Sarren, the Human/Collector hybrid, etc. You were always in control and your player was always just strong enough (having them level scale is a major component).

Here comes Inquisition, which Andromeda seems to draw a lot from. In Inq, you do not have to visit the Fallow Mire, Storm Coast, Exalted Planes, Emerald Graves, Emprise du Lion, Western Approach, and Forbidden Oasis AT ALL. The Hinterlands, Crestwood, and Western Approach you just have to do a little bit to get the story going.

Eventually when I get to Crestwood, I am pawning everyone. It's just no fun as I get way too overlevelled Corypheus seems like a wuss. DLC did nothing to help as that just made me stronger than I already am. Add the fact that in three playthroughs I rolled as a Knight-Enchanter and you're just handing me the game on a silver platter.

If half the planets of Andromeda are optional, then where's the fun? You're way too overlevelled facing the Archen. I don't know if this is me being old-fashioned, but if you're going to make most of the worlds optional, then at least level scale, ala Skyrim. Or, if they're against level scaling, then at least make all the worlds necessary to complete the game. I don't know where the fascination with "optional content" came from as being way too overlevelled is just not fun.