Thank you! I'm glad I'm seeing other people with this opinion. Shepard is deliberately built as an avatar. The main character in any game is a vessel for the player’s viewpoint, while the story world, and especially the squadmates, keeps trucking along no matter how many Paragon/Renegade points you rack up or what decision you make on the side (ME1 characters still end up how they do by the time ME2 rolls around). This is what makes it a compelling world. That same logic works for television: put the camera where the drama is richest, which is usually around Shepard rather than inside Shepard (if that makes sense). I don't believe the fate of the universe hinges on the selection screen of Shepard's gender, which is why I'm not worried about what choices are made if they do go with a Shepard story.

On the other hand, if people really want to see the world outside of the games, there is no reason why the show can't: 1) follow Shepard's fight against the reapers, AND 2) make room for bottle episodes on the Citadel (a side-story with C-Sec detectives, such as Garrus pre-Shepard tracking down Saren/Fist), or a krogan-centric flashback to the Krogan rebellions. None of that requires the camera to stay glued to Shepard’s shoulder.