User blog comment:Ironreaper/Problems with the Catalyst/@comment-4953843-20120414163551

also, most (not all, of course) of your questions basically amount to "if the catalyst is an all-powerful SOB why didn't it do everything from the get-go?"...

... here's an apt real world analogy:

did whatever god you believe in ever made life easier for you from the moment you began living?

yeah, i just compared a fictional quasi-deity to another yet-unquantifiable phenomenon.

on protheans being reduced to collectors: it was speculated in ME2 that attempts to create prothean reapers failed. collectors simply the next best thing the reapers can do for them.