Agreed wholeheartedly, KillerRabbit and Greviouss. Well said.
From the datamining, the original story looked so exciting and full of depth, with all sorts of branches and alliances to make, lesser of two evils, etc. I genuinely mourn the story we should have gotten but never did. I'll take "tadpole trying to seduce us into embracing ceramorphosis and the artifact with its mysterious imprisoned entity protecting us" over the Emperor and his awful twist, and how railroaded we are into going along with him until the very end.
I actually regret playing EA because knowing what we're missing significantly lessens my overall enjoyment of the game. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
