Now I know who's responsible for those crappy facial animations

I understand animations are not exactly state-of-the-art, but we should stop overreacting as if every NPC had ridiculous facial animations.
Sure there are problems in today's release build of ME:A, but mostly with Ryders themselfs - so it should be easier to fix since they need to mostly concentrate on their faces + a handful of other NPCs.
This hasn't been yet fixed in Day 1 patch, so they will improve animations with time.

In the high-quality scenes or companion interactions the animations are distractingly bad. When it's not important scenes the animations are also really bad. Stop being apologetic and pretend it's not an issue. If it were a Fallout game from Bethesda let alone from 2010 I could live with it, but Mass Effect always had "digital acting" as one of its key features. That's gone unless they make a major overhaul to these problems.

Not a gamebreaker, but please stop pretending there's no reason to be disappointed over this let alone react accordingly.