User blog comment:Garhdo/Mac Walters Interview with Newsarama - Foundation, ME4 and new IP./@comment-174.65.11.127-20131125005701

" It’s kind of like in Mass Effect 2 when we said, we’ll let you kill off all these people and yeah, it’ll cause problems for us later, but let’s not worry about it! Then we got to Mass Effect 3 and said, “oh no, what have we done?” "

This quote... explains SO much about Mass Effect 3.