My character personally; however, I have no beef with being able to play an origin char. After a few years of playing I will have tried them all. That isn’t a dig, I play games for years. Still play skyrim, Planescape, BG, etc.
Speaking of origin charecters - In Planescape, Torment you only had the option to play one single charecter. It was one of the best CRPGs I have ever played. So there is precedent. He still became your charecter as your action made him. If the origin charecters have even a bit of that moldability (new word? LoL), the origin system can be fun…