What's the point of loyalty missions?

Whilst i enjoyed MEA's loyalty missions i think the lack of consequence beyond unlocking top tier skills was a disappointment.
I was very much in favour of ME2's having a link/consequence between loyalty with the suicide mission end game.

I didn't like "loyalty" mission mechanic in ME2, because frankly, personal problems are HARDLY a distraction when you're fighting for your life with a swarm of nightmare insects that can turn you into Reaper goo. You, as the player, obviously want to succeed, thus keeping everyone alive, so you are inclined to do the loyalty missions which become a necessity, not an option. If ME2 is a "bloated side-quest" like it's critics like to call it, then Loyalty missions are bloating the main storyline of this side-quest.

I love companion-centric missions in RPGs, but they should be entirely optional and not necessary to succeed in your quest. There should be reward for doing them - like giving an upgrade for the companion in question (this means the in-game companions shouldn't be useless) or even unlocking other quests. Or giving your companion a specific OP item.

I still am mad at ME1 Wrex quest that didn't give me his ancestral armor. Like, fuck man, why did I even bother with it when I can't even see it?

Agreed with both of these comments. The fact that I couldn't tear into them as much as I would have liked sucked. Both of those idiots do something that could have easily killed the Pathfinder or the Initiative and I'm just supposed to laugh it off? What the heck? They should have done what DA:I did. In that game, you had the option of kicking Sera out of the Inquisition completely. I'm pretty sure there were a few other companions that you could kick out or "persuade" to leave permanently. I really wish they had options like that in this game because both Liam and Peebee would have been gone. I never used them in combat anyway

The point of companion quests is to get to know your companion's backgrounds through a fun quest rather than info-dumps in the dialogue. It also nudges you to play with each of them, in a setting where they try to show off their most appealing qualities at least for a short while, without forcing their participation in a main story line which can be extremely aggravating.

The point of loyalty missions? Those all important rank 6 power evo's. Well, that and further exposition of the characters, which is just as important to me.

The point of loyalty mission here is mostly character development for all of them, which is what it should have been the entire time, not like in ME 2 where if you did not help all of them they would die in the suicide mission, which was kind of stupid.

Funny he always survives that mission for me.

That actually happened to me. The reason? I picked a weak leader to "hold the line," as I went for the larva thing.

I thought so but when he mentioned ME 2 I just responded.