Those who're still saying "it's an option just don't try it if you don't like it" either didn't bother to read what the other posts say, or they did but somehow the messages just escaped them right after. It's not that this system exists is the problem, but that because of its existence, other things get compromised, in a bad kind of way. Especially when a bland and might-as-well-not-exist non-origin character makes you feel like you're getting punished for not playing Larian's precious origin characters.
That is based on the assumption that without origin characters you'd get a more interesting main character. I don't find this argument convincing, considering how generic the protagonist in original BG1 and 2 games is, even though those games had no origins. That is because BG1&2 had very little character reactivity, which BG3 already has more of.
