Damn near everyone agrees that it's the one thing Andromeda has over the trilogy. Powers not being tied to a specific class and better evasive maneuvers give it the edge. Why don't you try playing it on a harder difficulty to see just how much your tools standout. The irony of your post is that it reads like every person that automatically hated Andromeda, so they've talked themselves into believing that nothing Andromeda did could be better than the trilogy. I love the first 2 ME games, but ME3 was a huge letdown. Nothing in Andromeda is worse than Kai Leng.
people also say ME3 was only bad because of the ending but it had problems from the very start too. its like some default, must-be-said thing and its really not accurate
you have more freedom, sure. is it better?
powers not being tied to anything means all of nothing when there's nothing worth fighting, no stand out advantages of abilities versus others, lack of identity, etc. you can run it back yourself. the jetpack will bore you to death too because there's simply no point to it lol. its got more use for the jumping puzzles that no one asked for than the combat itself. half of them blend into the others too
like there's two different kinds of sentries, for what. incinerate and warp occupy the same space because of the hamfisted combo system. a lot of the AoE stuff never even got another look despite the fact that most of andromeda's fights are in wide open environments. lets not even get into the mod/equipment system that's somehow worse than ME1's