There's the thing that the best outcome from ME2 final mission depends of fully upgraded Normandy, which upgrades depends from resources gathered by Planet Scanning mini-game, so isn't optional content if player aims for the best possible outcome.
I know. You don't need to scan every planet to do this. Not even close. Yes, you'll have to do it a few times and probably spend less time on it that one away mission to a big empty square map in ME1's mako missions. Also, you can find a lot of resources on planets.
Planetary exploration in ME1 is mostly optional.
Just like scanning in ME2. "Mostly."
So spending more time in ME1 planetary exploration than in ME2 planet scanning doesn't happen but players with OCD or whatever.
Bullshit. Unless you are a complete retard and can't figure out planet scanning in ME2. It takes, what, a minute or two to strip 90% of the good resources out of a planet? Maybe less once you know what you are doing and upgrade the scanner.
I mean, unless you are just an OCD sped and you spend 20 minutes trying to get every last ounce out of a planet and use up all your probes and go back and buy more probes and piss them away again because you're an idiot and can't figure out the minigame and oh wow that's all of you, isn't it?
But seriously, you all keep whinging about the minigame as if it takes any time or effort whatsoever. Again, this is bullshit. You just want the Mako. People have even offered you mods that remove the minigame, but the truth is that you just want to sperg out with your dumb 6-wheeled rocket car on random empty, poorly textured planets for countless hours.
There's also a bug that can have quite a bit of influence how Mako handles, but I don't really care to go over all that again.
Never noticed it, but I'll take your word for it.
So it's buggy on top of being a piece of shit?
Nothing. Of. Value. Was. Lost.