Forum:Why was Crouch Removed?

Anyone know why Bioware decided that making Shepard unable to crouch was a good call? The left and right sticks both bring up the radar/objective thingy when clicked. Why couldn't the right stick alone do that and the left crouch? Another thing, I expected that if you couldn't crouch outside of cover anymore, you could at least manually crouch when behind tall cover like in Gears of War, since Mass Effect took that style of combat, but Shepard always stands up behind tall cover. I used to use crouching when fighting out of cover in ME1, usually as a vanguard since the shotty is meant for mobility, but ME2 screwed with my playstyle a bit at first.