See. the problem is, if they do something like you're suggesting, they wouldn't want to do it "Half-Assed", they would want to do it the RIGHT way, go for "Minimum Lovable Product", not "Minimum Viable Product".
That's an odd statement to make. A Generic/custom background with no origins at all would be an example of them taking a half-assed option. It can only improve from there.
Are you also suggesting that every additional tag adds an exponential amount of work in QA? If that's the case, then I really don't envy the QA team in Larian.
I think it's clear that Neonivek is simply asking for "better", not "perfection".
I agree with this, but personally I'll be able to forgive the game depending on how many pre-built characters there are and how customisable they are.
But if they are going to provide the option to build a custom character, I'd really appreciate if they would take it seriously.
