To continue on the bro thing. I don't mind it so much because it's become more of a commonly used term to just mean "good friend that has your back who you can have a laugh with ect" I don't think everyone who says it actually means "no ******!".
People were kind of fanatical about Garrus being their bro in ME2/ME3 though, and before launch there was a pretty incredible amount of anxiety about him being potentially a romance for maleShep. I know the word doesn't necessarily have to have that meaning, but in that case it was fairly implicit that a bro was a platonic male friend minus all romantic connotations.
(To the point where people who *couldn't* have been communicating with each other were all independently saying Garrus was their bro, and so Garrus couldn't or shouldn't be an m/m romance.)
I guess I just associate the word bro with a teenage boy who likes Bioware's wisecracking and "badass" male characters, fairly or not. And to put it bluntly, I'd much rather spend time talking to Dorian about the flaws of an oligarchy or the nature of magic in Thedas - not about explosions and enemy kill counts.