Which is fascinating cause they didn't actually made any meaningful changes to the ending. Yet "Gamers" absolutely took it as a win.

Maybe, and that is a very big maybe, starfleet sometimes needs to assassinate foreign politicians, but under no circumstances should it have an organisation whose entire job is to do that and worse.

Does that mean he's a generative AI?

Beep boop 🤖 I'd do the robot but my back hurts.

The tech powers, particularly from ME2 onwards, are also very magic-y. Fire, lightning and ice - just with a scifi explanation.