User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-1341687-20120529204251/@comment-1388547-20120530060722

Yeah, I had some misgivings about curing the genophage too. I certainly wasn't going to backstab the krogan, but the salarian dalatrass' point was well-taken, and having Wrex talk about expansion even before the genophage was actually cured was ... not encouraging. Mordin's dialog on his loyalty quest also did a good job of showing the arguments for the genophage. As he said, it's "like gardening."

I'm not sure what kind of middle ground you could find, though -- delaying the distribution of the cure wasn't going to fly with the krogan. A partial cure that raises birth rates but not back to their pre-genophage levels would probably be the worst of both worlds -- the krogan would be enraged at not getting a proper cure, and they'd have the population to make war again. That's why I'm not importing any characters who destroyed Maelon's data: having Wrex and Bakara in charge (or just Bakara for a while if Wrex is stuck on Earth after the ending) seems like the best chance for peace between the krogan and the rest of the galaxy.