The crafting system is massive, which makes the removal of managing your team mates' loadouts even more ludicrous.

Very little thought has been put into the Role Playing aspects of this game and I find that very disappointing.

How to fix: Impossible in it's current form. The myriad of inconsequential side quests need to be removed, replaced by a fleshed out storyline with decision forks to give it replayability. The character creation module needs replacing with something decent Even Skyrim's original character creation was better than this and that was released 6 years ago. If tactical placement of team mates is to be included, you must be able to pause the game to set this up as the combat is to fluid to do it on the run. Reinstitute loadout management for squad. I won't mention the animations, that's been hammered to death.

Basically Mass Effect has become a Shooter with benefits.

If they completely redid the character creation and presets or released sdk for it to modders or borrowed a separate application that can upload characters I'd probably be happy. I just can't become immersed playing with fuggly badly animated characters, this is supposed to be an rpg right?