The problem with choices mattering is the fact that under capitalism there's no way they can justify creating storylines that involve a lot of those characters anyway. The Krogan genophage cure in ME3 is a massive outlier and honestly shocks me that they got a green light to do it. There's a reason usually the guy from previous game who could've died is just going to show up in a tavern and he's like "Yeah, you wanna get drunk for old times?" or if they want to be REAL cheap in an email.

Loved the dwarves tbh, my first character was a dwarf noble and it was a really easy jump into an evil playthrough

Being an archer was just being a discount mage with less cool shit to do, it was really easy to snipe mages though