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The Extended Cut DLC made it so that shooting the "Starchild" that everyone hated gives you the ending where everyone dies. They might've made it in response to videos of people shooting the kid in frustration. It genuinely smelled like BioWare saying "fuck you" to their fans.
Long before ME3 was released, Gamestop originally leaked news about a "prothean squadmate." BioWare denied it, and later quietly released Javik as DLC after cutting him out of the story. Originally he was the Cipher for the prothean beacon on Thessia.
I can't find a picture of it, but BioWare put the ending controversy as a selling point on one of their ME3 ads.