There's nothing wrong with not knowing this stuff, or even with believing what other people told you they saw in the leaks. I'm just here to tell you that they were fools who didn't read the leaks themselves and told people what was in them anyway.
The original ending was nicer, actually. Destroy only killed Reapers, not geth or EDI.
Yes and now you made me sad, not Geth ... really ? It didn't killed Geth ? What the hell BioWare !?! Why didn't you stayed with this idea ? Instead you made me into doing a damn genocide becuase all other alternatives were worse !
I thought this ending in leaks were more like horror ending which I come up before relaese of ME 3. BioWare was obviously thinking the same way since they have inplanted mine horror ending anyway inside game, luckily you only heared about it, never experianced it - since it is memory of Javik from his cycle.
I doubt many people was hearing this from him anyway since .. well I think many people would role play with good answer here and avoid it.
I thought about MOAR DRAMA ending where at the end you must destroy Reapers but on your way you have to kill your entire crew who will got indocrtinated and try to kill you, while all of them being on different stages of indoctrination. Some of them trying to kill you with no regret while others begging you to kill them because they don't won't to follow what indocrination tells them to do.
Mine brother hated that idea with passion, somehow at the end it was better than original ending even for him.