User blog comment:Antares2/I see what you did there.../@comment-3528888-20120729144420

the original end was the Dark matter story arc. The endings we got were because of some leak and they had to redo it...and also because the original writer was redesignated to the old Republic story halfway through ME2...thats why there are so many plotholes(i.e. the sun on Tali's recruitment mission was originaly suppsed to be foreshadowing the dark matter story). The endigns we got were last minute, and these things you mentioned that were before ME3 were a pure coincidene..after that, just maybe it was a screw you...but I think that "Artistic Integrity" was just what EA had them say so that they can put out more paid DLC that just happens to change some aspects of the endings later on (i.e. leviathan)