this 'not able to import' past saves just allowed people to retcon and re-do their choices. Although we all should be given second chances, in life, you have to live with your choice. I think that is why u always have to think carefully when making a choice in bioware games (or in life for that matter) because it may have a serious repercussion in your future games (or future life).
This able to choose just make it less engaging. I mean if i found out that i make a wrong choice, i can easily choose again and that's it. in the past, u may have to replay the DAO and DA2 just to retcon a wrong choice. it makes that choice more personal.
oh well.. just my two cents. hope they allowed us to import one day.
The problem is that even if they did allow imports, a lot of decisions were lost completely in the DA:O-DA2 import. Others were reverse/erased completely. Zevran's romance, for example, was never reflected in gameplay.
So Bioware can either have you import both saves and pray to the Maker that the entire system isn't even more jacked up than the previous import debacle, or they can do what they are doing.
Also, for those of us who want to experience all the different ways DA:O and DA2 could import to DA:I, but lack the time to invest in new 30+ hour playthroughs, the Dragon Age Keep is a Godsend.
Or, in the words of the DA:Keep Code:
'Canon' is a lie, there is only choice. Through choice, I gain characters.
Through characters, I gain playthroughs.
Through playthroughs, I gain saves.
Through saves, my imports are broken.
The Keep shall set me free.