Why You should Never Ask for a New Ending

The extended Mass Effect 3 ending is now out, and we can consider whether it was a good idea to complain about the original ending. Here is some of what the download gives us:

“And while we still have many challenges ahead of us, we can face them together. And we will honor those who died to give us that future.”

Someone never bought into the whole “War Against Cliché” thing. And no further comment is necessary. 

The extended ending makes me realize how much I disliked the long morale speeches in the game, and how little interest I have in having the fate of every single character spelled out for me. Did Grunt finally open the auto repair shop that he had always dreamt of? That belittles what I found interesting in the game. But again, this the Lost  ending problem: how do you wrap up a work with broad appeal, given that the audience may have very different investments?