Are you also suggesting that every additional tag adds an exponential amount of work in QA?
Origin tags do, as well as for designers and writers. There are relationships between different origins, conflicting quests, etc, in addition to all the origin specific details. Every origin added takes more work than the one before, just to stay at the same quality level.
This is reasonable. You're talking about competitive questing. I absolutely appreciate that when you add more options to the competitive questing, it gets exponentially more difficult.
You're implying that "Origins" are directly tied to competitive questing. What this also implies is that the "Generic" background is unable to participate in competitive questing.
Neonivek seems to be asking for the "Generic" background to be improved on, and asking for something that gives you some implied history where you could turn up to a village, say "hey dad!" and move along. Not an origin in the same depth as The Red Prince, with competitive questing and the lot as such.
It kind of makes me wonder why we're even getting the option to create a "Generic" character (aside from the fact that there would probably be riots). It really sounds like it would be a relatively crap choice to make, and I wonder how you'll stop most people from making the crap choice.
