User blog comment:Ygrain/The ending: there MUST be something more to it/@comment-2256917-20120619185541

Your analysis is concise & very good. So good that it persuades me that the "First" account is indeed what the boss was going for, and perhaps his vanity eclipsed his judgment at the critical moment (hence the need for a deus ex). Bioware might indeed have preferred the "Second" (non-mere-sexytime) account. But, to borrow from The Illusive Man, "the facts" are with the "First".