Mass Effect: Andromeda -- Why so much hate?

I don't get it. I really don't. I've been playing the game now for several days, and it seems pretty solid. It doesn't exceed ME2 or ME3, but Andromeda is certainly better than the internet seems to say it is. It's sitting at 74 on Metacritic, but I believe it should be somewhere around an 85-88: still not as good as the original trilogy, but neither is it a game that can just be ignored.

Most of the complaints I've seen are largely based on the animation bugs and glitches, but having put in about 25 hours so far, I've only noticed one or two. That's about as bad as any of the previous games. The faces don't look as bad as everyone else seems to be saying, at least I don't think they're so jarring that I can't enjoy the game play.

Game play is by far improved over previous titles, and I haven't seen anyone say otherwise, but it seems that an overall good looking and great sounding game with great game play can't overcome a few graphical errors here and there. I just don't get it. I hear everyone crying that it breaks immersion, but it's a game. Just enjoy it, you don't have to live it.

Oddly enough, there was a lot of hoopla about bad writing as well. I do think, especially early on, there's some groan-worthy lines, but I don't think we can blame writers for having a different sense of humor. The only thing I can blame the game for is not capturing the same gravitas of the original series, but that probably has a lot to do with the more casual tone of the new cast. I really don't understand people complaining about the characters not being good, I absolutely love the cast.