A big reason why the planet scanning is boring

Agreed, it was also boring in the other games when you were scanning--what was fun was not knowing if the anomaly would turn into a mini quest. There is no element of surprise.

It's filler content. That much is obvious.

BioWare developers are pathological liars.  You could fill a phone book with their broken promises and lies over the years.

I'm new to the shenanigans, only last year or so

Yah, another halfbacked unfinished feature.
I wonder, if the ammount of ressources received for cryo pod "mining operations" based on planets scanned would be that hard to implement in the first place. It is actualy not much, but at least SOMETHING.
And couldnt the number of outposts affect the ammount of research point we get for cryo pod "lab technicians"?
When I think about it, many planets around the Heleus Cluster have kett, remnant and even angara operations ongoing, so, why cant we get some heleus and ramnant research points based on planets explored as well?
Not that it would matter much, we already have a ton of unneeded ressources and research points, but actualy, the 3 things above took me 30s of thinking the first time I actualy looked at the cryo pods and explored the first planet, so, 5min more and I could come up with more.
I wonder, if I can do that, why not BioWare. They are actualy paid for such "thoughts".

But I need experience and resources.. so I don't see the problem.

Also, did you honestly expect more planets than the 5 we already have?

And can we stop acting like ME1 exploration was any more fun? Those were empty planets. Those were planets that almost literally were exacly alike aside from a different paint job.

People need to get rid of those rose coloured glasses, ffs. I'd much rather just scan a planet than what we did in ME1.

A day may come when you realise your experience is not universal. Until then I'll say you do not define my ME1 experience.

Oh that's right, you can only do that to me. I forgot the new rules of engagement for 2017.

Everytime people pretend 70% of ME1 wasn't filler content, I die a little inside.

The rose coloured glasses are a powerful thing in the RPG die hard scene.

If you read what some people pretend Baldur's Gate was like it's like they are talking about a completely different game.

I did enjoy discovering random stuff though. While ME1 was ultimately a bit marred by the cookie cutter mines and compounds, it was nice to discover little things that hinted at something more ominous. Of course, we did have stuff like that here, it was just compressed into the main playable maps rather than being totally remote like ME1.