>Shit, really, since I had
>unlimited credits, I just bought my goon squad the spectre
>master gear from the Citadel and deleted that other shit.

There was a balancing issue there as well. I think it would have been cool if they had programmed some kind of item creation aspect that would allow obfuscated items to be re-purposed into better gear or other items. I mean, the in-game canon makes it a point to tell us over and over that this is something the Quarians excel at. They could really do so so much with something like that without it getting complicated or cumbersome... or keeping the customization pretty much all together deleted as it was in Two.

All they have to do is take the depth that they have gotten to with their story, and allow that to naturally flow into game design decisions.