The future of the series

Milky Way is fucked, let's not go back there. I want to do a time skip, and give the game setting enough time to plausibly to evolve into something that's more populated, cosmopolitan and more than just a unsettled frontier

Probably other clusters in Andromeda with the same set up, but with better CC and animations instead. Of course, would be interesting to see how the forum reacts if the same type story and everything. The chaos from it will be fun to watch.

no, it really doesn't feel like a ME game
few examples:

boring, lifeless open world
boring repetitive fetch quests
no mass relays, no mass effects
no space battles, 
no meaningful choices
no attractive asari
no badass turians
no violent krogans
almost no cutscnes of cinematics with actions , biotics or good combat
the protagonists are kids
bad facial animations
no music or very few music or dull music
enemy is not fierce or dangerous

1. Did you play Mass Effect 1?
2. Every Mass Effect had "boring repetitive fetch quests."
3. You do realize that "Mass Effect" explains how most of the science works in the franchise? Relays are mentioned in the game.
4. Did you miss the final assault between the Kett forces and the Tempest and Remnant fleet?
5. Define "meaningful choices." We have a lot of choices that can have several consequences. DLC and the sequel may make those consequences more apparent.
6. Beauty is subjective.
7. Vetra is rather badass. Avitus Rix is not too bad either.
8. Does Drack and Morda ring a bell?
9. There are cutscenes everywhere...
10. Being a "kid" is a bad thing? They are in their early 20s.
11. Okay? Mass Effect has never had great facial animations.
12. There's plenty of music. It's just not as memorable (or used as much) as the OT soundtrack.
13. Did you play Insanity in ME1-3? MEA is by far the most challenging as those games were cakewalks.

Be honest with me. Are you trolling at this point? Half your answers sound like a troll.

derrame isn't trolling you. This is a known issue people try to bring up since MEA release. He is not the only one to claim it.

An honest question did ME1 feel like a Mass Effect game to you? 

ME1's open worlds had way less to do than the ones in MEA. MEA's world's changed based on your actions and had alot of main story missions & side quests.
ME1's fetch quests were literally, find this writing or noble gas or medal. MEA's fetch quests are some of the more interesting I've done because they can start off as something that seems so straightforward and then twist or they add some nice world building. 
MEA has Mass Effect drive cores & biotics 
I'd argue that MEA has more meaningful choices than ME1 because in ME1 you had to wait until the next game to find out the consequences of your choices, in MEA most of the consequences appear in game. They determine who are the other Pathfinders are, if the Korgan start to trust the Nexus again, who is in charge of Kadara, your relationship with the Angara. During my first playthrough of ME1 I'd no idea which of my choices were important because most of them didn't really resolve in ME1.
Attractiveness is subjective, I find Peebee & Lexi attractive
Who is the badass Turian in ME1? Not Garrus, he doesn't get badass to ME2. Saren or Nihlus? Vetra & Rix are both pretty badass in my book. 
No Violent Krogan? there is Drack who is at least as violent as Wrex and then all the Krogan enemies you fight. Who were all the violent Krogan in ME1?
Not sure what this means - you want all the action in cutscenes?
Well not Drack, Cora, or Vetra who have more experience than Wrex, Ashley and Garrus did at the start of ME1, so I guess you mean Ryder, which is fair enough. That is kinda the point though.
ME1 also had bad facial animations
Can't disagree with this.
eh the Kett are the organic Borg, that is terrifying, how can you not be terrified by that? 

The OP's right, if anything you are a troll.  

You have other AAA animators pointing out the failures of ME:A facial animation systems(and other systems outside of animation), not to mention, there isn't a single positive critic review that doesn't list them as a negative.

And while Beauty might be subjective, 100+ Asari females with Lexi's face, is not.

Finished last night (90 hours) with default Sara Ryder.

If feels like the first Act of a longer story.
There;s clearly more to come, and I'm very happy about that.

Genocide the Kett, explore more clusters, meet more fugly people.

Judging from what we learn in the story, the Kett are pretty small potatoes.

Mass Effect - Battlefront/filed. If BW really wants to keep the RPG elements afloat, outsource the game development to EU.

Hum....................... yes and no. I mean, yes, Vetra is badass (but her sister very annoying), but Avitus or Kandros (you forget him) really lack of background even if they are good characters (I should certainly read the comics with Kandros but, sorry, I base what I write on the game only). I expect A LOT more from them on the next game. And well, about turians in MEA, that's it.... I don't remember any other important turians... O_o Also they missed an opportinity to create a really great mission with their missing ark ....
We had so many serious badassery on the turian side in the trilogy *look at her own avatar* well, Nihlus for a start (and the guy lived only 30 minutes), Garrus obviously, Saren, Victus and his poor son, Pallin, Chellick, Sparatus ... I really feel a huge difference, and it's the same for the Asari, one of my friend (huge asari fan) told me he thinks they are just the shadow of themselves...
Well, everybody may have different feelings about the game, that's true, I personally have mixed feelings about plenty of things, but I easily understand why so many people have troubles with this game.

BTW, is it me or turians have a weird problem with their legs ? I watched images of the trilogy and turians stand straights usually, their legs are not curving like in MEA.... each time I see Kandros I have the feeling he will fall on the floor

Same here  ! I finished yesterday night !

XD

I also think it's obviously just a start BUT even if I'm happy if they continue the journey, they have IMO a lot of things to fix on the next game... narration, musics, glitches etc.......