Game is horribly optimized, still populated with bugs that would have been caught in any QA that bothered to employ testers with working eyes, the PC UI and controls are nothing short of the LAZIEST CONSOLE CONTROL PORT EVER, the story is unmotivating, the characters for the most part feel completely empty (Solas, Blackwall, Vivienne for example are entirely forgettable, seventy grueling hours into the game and I have not found a single snippet of information/reveal to make those characters even remotely interesting), the combat is simply repetitive, combat repetitiveness is only emphasized by the constant instant enemy respawns, companion AI retardation makes combat a repetitively annoying baby sitting excercise, the regions whilst pretty are completely devoid of explorational flair (woohoo, another landmark to reclaim ... now where's that Elfroot?), a character progression/levelling system that dumped attribute point allocation placing the entire character build on loot, which is AWFUL and completely random with crafting being so painfully superiour, if you actually get the schematics you need from the RNG, that whatever rare/unique gear you find survives exactly as long as it takes for you to get to the nearest vendor and the whole repertoire of MMO quest designs like "get me ten of this", "kill five of that" or "bring this to there" isn't just mindless, it's plain tedious and all you get is power and influence, all of which is available in such inflated numbers that you don't know what to do with all of it because you can't possibly spend even half of it, meaning quests are entirely unrewarding and any XP you get for completing quests only means that if you dare to actually complete all the quests you get, you end up being hopelessly overleveled halfway through the game.
LOL.... What's amazing... every point you mention here, is spot on.... spooooooooot ON!
I did finish the game, just to complete it. (168hrs, every side-quest i could get, and had over 287power with no-more quests =)
Among the plethora of issues, the loot is just frustrating as well as stale combat with respawns... o god... those respawns...
Going back to loot, I'm a dagger rogue and was unable to find ONE single Tier 3 dagger schematic, aside from the 1 you buy which is non-mastery and is AOE version, which i sincerely hate.
RNG allowed me to get Soooooo many swords/2h / 1h, purely frustrated. I had to use a crappy main-hand dagger drop from a dragon that was only slightly better than tier 2, just to avoid the awful AOE dagger.