>>1973598
>Quests can railroad you sometimes into doing things you don't want to do
Honestly I kind of like that stuff, my main issue with it is the lack of resources to see quest lines as a flowchart once you've stopped roleplaying in singleplayer and want to play to win.
For example it's kind of fun to play a ES2 game with Vaulters and know that they're gonna chimp out over "MUH HOMELAND" if you colonize Auriga, in the same way that you know Necrophage is gonna be constantly at war, or Forgotten are gonna be spamming Espionage.