User blog comment:Der Schreiber/Casey Hudson Comments on ME3 Ending/@comment-1786741-20120314050139/@comment-58609-20120314051612

As much as I dislike the ending, I don't really think we have the 'right' to change it as fans, the presence of choice regardless. We certainly have the right to imagine alternatives, such as AR/AU fanfics, but for fans to demand an ending be changed, for a creator to change their own work for the consumer, reeks of arrogance.

The examples listed aren't in the same boat either. I can't comment on how much/little fan influence was present for 'Fallout', but it didn't require the ending be changed, only added to. Also, the Han shot first debate has changed multiple times under Lucas's hand-he, the creator, made the change rather than the fans.