User blog comment:The Milkman/Extended Expectations, Part II/@comment-147.26.199.70-20120627235228/@comment-4237253-20120628014716

Well I don't think it's fair to make the Destroy ending worse just to make the other options viable. Besides that, if you're playing the game right, you won't even know about how many additional scenes and dialogue are added if you live until after you've made a choice for the first time. If we can have a better sense of closure, why hold back?

If you want to make it fair, then instead of a reunion scene, simply show the Normandy crew, and what becomes of them after they die. It simply isn't fair to oversimplify the endings just so no one ending is better than the other.

Again, screwing over people who did pick a love interest (and I would wager there are more of them) isn't fair either. You're saying we shouldn't add scenes in because some people might not get them. That just holds the game back. Is it fair that players who didn't do side missions have to watch more people die in Mass Effect 2 and 3? There are plenty of choices that aren't completely grey, and that's alright. If we didn't regret any of our decisions, it wouldn't really be decision-making.

That said, there's no reason you can't have those same kind of scenes, just without Shepard. It simply isn't fair to those who chose Destroy that we get no sense of closure, simply because Shepard dies in the three other endings.