I think the real 'conspiracy', as far as there is one, is 'Let's dumb down the PC version so that console gamers don't get a vastly inferior game this time'.
I find it truly depressing that rather than trying to lift the console game to the heights of the PC version with DA2, they seem to have instead decided that the lowesr standards should prevail.
Just a bad, bad decision on every level. Add the ludicrous DRM to the mix, and you have to wonder if Bioware's real goal is to shift their customers over to console then abandon the PC altogether.