My first (un-spoilered) playthrough, the day the game came out, I enjoyed it all (well, except the prologue) right up until that abyssal horror of an ending. After the initial shock and disbelief subsided I took another look and more and more things started to glare out as "meh" to me. I guess I experienced the first PT on an endorphine high caused of finally being able to play the grande finale of my favorite game series ever. The endorphine high has long since worn off.
Now I´m just thankful that the EC in combination with heavy head canon allows me to replay the whole series with certain enjoyment and not give up on it entirely. I´m not ready for that...I´ll
never be ready for that!
I just wish I could play along as happily as I did before the whole debacle.

What concerns and at the same time disgusts me more than anything ME3 did though, are the pre-release promises/statements BW made and their behavior through the subsequent uproar. I used the word
incomprehensible in another thread. I stand by that.
I´m still here because I loved and continue to love the ME-series, because I´m glad to realize I´m not the only one still bothered/disgruntled/raging mad, and because I still have the slightest tiny bit of irrational hope that BioWare has something up their sleeves that will put everything right again.
Those are also the reasons I came out of lurking after two years of BSN-invisibility. Ok, that and because my shrink told me to start interacting with people...I´m not quite convinced what good it´ll do me but oh well...I´m here now...guess you´re the ones who have to deal with it...lol...