Think our anitial profile choice will effect our starter gear?

Im pretty sure everyone starts with the same armour, the bog standard Ai armour you see in the cinematic trailers.

Might be similar to DAI - same basic armour type, but with little cosmetic differences depending on class/profile. (warhorn for warriors, lockpicks for rogues, spell book for mages)

Not sure what the ME equivalent of that would be, mind you.

Scott:
Early life
Born on the Citadel space station in the year 2163, Scott Ryder and his fraternal twin sister Sarah are the children of Alec Ryder, an N7 operative in the Systems Alliance military who served in Rear Admiral Jon Grissom's expeditionary task force beyond the Charon mass relay. What became of his mother, Dr. Ellen Ryder, is unknown.

Scott joined the Systems Alliance military and was assigned to an outpost near Arcturus Station overseeing Relay 202, a primary route to the Arcturus system and a contested space with an unsavory reputation. Scott was summoned to protect Arcturus, but also had "a front row seat to everyone else going off to fortune and glory."

Andromeda Initiative
Once they were old enough, Scott and Sarah volunteered for the Andromeda Initiative and were placed under their father's supervision. He was allowed to receive some informal training with a personal instructor—given the overall nature that the journey to the Andromeda galaxy was considered a one-way trip.

Sarah:
Early life
Born on the Citadel space station in the year 2163, Sarah Ryder and her fraternal twin brother Scott are the children of Alec Ryder, an N7 operative in the Systems Alliance military who served in Rear Admiral Jon Grissom's expeditionary task force beyond the Charon mass relay. What became of her mother, Dr. Ellen Ryder is unknown.

Sarah joined the Systems Alliance military which was continuing its research for Prothean technology after successful discoveries on Mars. She was initially assigned to peacekeeping duties. At some point, Sarah was approached to serve a support role for Prothean researchers and often described the thrill of serving with scientists like Mateus Shiva, on the brink of the next great discovery.

Andromeda Initiative
Once they were old enough, Sarah and Scott volunteered for the Andromeda Initiative and were placed under their father's supervision. She was allowed to receive some informal training with a personal instructor—given the overall nature that the journey to the Andromeda galaxy was considered a one-way trip.

Well... they use to, in ME1. lol

But then in ME2 and ME3, everyone's shepard had the same armor. So, my money would be in continuing the streamlined version where everyone gets the same. Which is kind of lame imo, but whatever.

Actually it was the same armour in ME1, the only difference was that they had different shoulder guards depending on what class you were. That was literally the only difference, they were all onyx armour.

They were classified as light, medium, and heavy armor regardless of the lack of visual design difference. I quite like the idea of of soldiers and vanguards receiving training to be front line troops whereas classes like adept and infiltrator would not. 

Everyone having the same bulky armor makes no sense as an infiltrator would require speed, maneuverability, and the like over straight up protection. Etc.

*shrug* call me old fashioned, but I like a little more complexity in my games. It's not gonna stop me from enjoying the game, it's just something that I don't think should have been streamlined. 

It's more complex in the idea of having different armor for different purposes as a base armor. 3 > 1. 

It's a case of... 3 armors, with restrictions to classes (that actually make sense!) being dropped down to 1 version that you can sort of customize through armor pieces and make any kind of armor for anyone. Sure, that's great for customization, but it removes that layer of immersion and throws it in the crowd with many other decisions of, no one cares about that... just make it the same. 

I believe were talking about "complex" in different senses. 

If they would have kept the class restrictions and added the armor piece system to that to where you can make your own unique and varied light armor/heavy armor for you character... that would have been awesome. But that wouldn't fall into their new, "we want you to be able to do everything in one playthrough" style. 

I get it is something you would want to see, but for me the armor levels never made sense for Shepard was a trained trained soldier and there was no reason given to why certain classes could only use certain armor while laying out the pros and cons of each.  So it could be BioWare wanted to make something for people like me and not something to "simplify" or "speed up" the game.

The real problem in ME2 and 3 was more why is Sheperd in this big bulky armor when Jack and Miranda do just fine in practically nothing at all?

Be that as it may it is still stupid that a fully armored Sheperd has the same survivability as Jack who dose not even where a shirt.

Can you explain?

Well except deluxe edition customers who start out with all the best guns and armor in the entire game, naturally.