Is it really that bad?

But in fairness it is following the formula of ME1 and I think they wanted to win back the hearts and minds of ME1 fans. While ME2/3 attracted a much wider base, they took criticism for getting to far from its predecessor and they were pretty valid criticisms. Gone were the days of explore. Here in MEA, Eros would be equivalent to Therum I think which was meant to be the first planet though you could go to any. You land there and ride in the mako a little shooting a few geth along the way. You find the spot that looks to be where she is and big attack for where you are level wise happens, then you go inside. My guess is here you may pick up the krogan after some oooh and aaahhhhhs and maybe a puzzle and some impressive surroundings with a bit of story to those monoliths or whatever we are calling them. That makes it pretty dead on beat for beat to ME1. Here we have more we can do. I didn't get a chance to really scout abaout but it looked like I missed a side quest I think and probably a few other things which gives it more to do than therum, but it still is keeping with ME1 beats yet it does give us more to do already along with puzzles to solve. 

I don't mind if eros is sort of low key and even if another is sort of low key. As long as they have things to do while we are there. I would like it even more if they could evolve when we get the viability up. I would imagine this isn't going to take us only a month but maybe more like a year across all planets or several months I would think of in game time (their time not ours)  and over the course of our gameplay where we are waking people up and improving viability, I wonder if the planets will become more populated and show more signs of life. There was that element in DAI, while not super impressive, that first zone, once you cleared it of mage/templar combat you got more population there and people now asking you to help them. Since it looks like we have some DAI mixed into MEA, I wonder if that happens as the planet becomes more viable.