Jacob a character which does not follow his intended premise

Jacob was a character with huge potential in the way who he was supposed to be. He was supposed to be this friendly guy which lets us warm up towards cereberus, who lets us gradually trust cerberus, who we know will always have our back. When Miranda is a renegade then jacob is her paragon counterpart. Jacob was supposed to be the guy who we can have casually small talk, while Miranda is the reluctant and closed and cold one. When Miranda and Jacob bicker that we rather listen to the moral guy than the ruthless cerberus officer.

What we got instead was Jacob who no matter what or how far we were into the game, even after his loyalty mission was closed and cold towards us. Never gave the feeling he wanted to be there on the mission in contrast to his claims he wanted to be. Never gave the feeling he was approachable or we could trust him. We ask him about his past then he either gives us the most brief summary possible or just outright says for the most part he does not want to talk about. His relationship with his father seems like he could almost not care less about his father, rather being neutral curious what happened to him. He does not like if we speak to him informally. Jacob never approaches us, we alweays have to approach him. And it does not help that his romance feels rather forced and being a sour loser in ME3 Citadel dlc where you have to that mech match against him. He comes rather of as unlikeable and rude and not as sympathetic and friendly he is supposed to be.

This leads to that Jacob has basically no charcter since he tells us nothing about himself. So the most interesting part is his past with the alliance, preventing this terrorist attack on the citadel. I wish we would have gotten more details to that. Apparently there was a game which covered that but is no longer available to play. And I would prefer to learn his past in the main game rather than to have to play through this other game or wiki to get additional info about him.

And his past with Miranda how they worked together as a team and even had a fling or sth like that during Project Lazarus. But he does not even talk a lot about her. He seems to cheerish her as a effective operative and teammate, but he never goes into detail into their acquaintanceship. Because they sure do not feel like friends, but more like coworkers who only work together out of necessity and when their was a bond of trust implied, which certainly does not feel like they trust each other really.

So my verdict is that Jacob had huge potential, but it feels like the writers did not know what to do with him despite having a interesting premise and past, which they refused to follow. Which is a shame because I would have loved to hear more about Jacobs past his relationship with miranda and his father, more details how his views change on the IM over the course of the game or a decent romance. But for whatever reason the writers dropped the ball in every department and thereforte he feels like being neglected and forgotten by the writers, it feels like he was not supposed to be in the game, by his lack of presence and focus. However I really wanted to see this interesting dichotomy betweeen him and miranda play out as polar opposites who are at each other throats on how they approach certain missions. Sure there is the one or other line like with what to do with Legion or if you should rescue your crew immediately after their abduction, I just wished they would have given us more of these scenes and delved deeper into this subject. But due to the lack of focus on jacob we never get really attached to him and we do not care if he survives the suicide mission, which is a shame.

However like I said the part which is the most I wanted to know are to learn who he is, his relatiosnhips with others and how he thinks about cerberus, since he could have given us a new unique perspective to view these topics, but we never learned more about them and have to fill the blanks out for ourselves. So do you agree, disagree or how did you perceive Jacob and wanted him to be written?