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And Synthesis is largely unexplained and a massive change to every living thing in the galaxy that you're foisting on them against their will, all because it happens to negate the incredibly stupid motives of the Catalyst and Reapers.
Synthesis is also the ending to Beast Machines, like, exactly, to the point that a huge number of people who had seen that terrible and unfortunate show make the exact comment online (type mass effect 3 beast machines into google) in the immediate aftermath. While originality is overrated in storytelling, the fact that ME3 idealized ending was exactly the same (the dialog and visuals even match up) as the much derided at the time hackneyed and cheesy conclusion to a Transformers show that had aired ten years earlier makes it impossible for me to take the option seriously even now.