Which Origin character are you looking forward to playing?
I'll only play my custom character (and ideally a
Fully Custom Character, not a Semi-Custom Character like Gorion's Ward, if that is at all possible).
The option of playing an Origin Character is an idea completely antithetic to the feeling of a DnD campaign that Larian purports to want to convey.
It's also a huge resource investment. I can somewhat understand that Larian may want to cater to as many audiences as possible at once (which is not without risk), and some players may prefer a pre-made character. But I think 2-4 Origin Characters would have been enough. Offering 5, or 8 or 12 Origin Characters is a Very Bad Idea, in my view.
See, I think it depends on your perspective. There's two steps to the way that a character is a part of a DnD campaign.
#1 is character creation. You generate your character with a specific background and archetype that suits you, as a player.
#2 is character integration. Your character is integrated into the setting and the running plot, through various hooks to your character's backstory and choices.
In a real DnD campaign, a good DM gives you both. You create the ideal character that you want, and the DM collaborates with you to hook that character into their setting and plot. In a video game, with no DM to collaborate with, you kind of have to choose to focus on one or the other.
If #1 is the core to your DnD experience, then yeah, origin stories are antithetical to the feeling of a DnD campaign. You need a blank slate character so you can project your specific and personal ideals onto it, and actually integrating that character into the setting is unnecessary and even counterproductive, since that integration will never match what you could imagine yourself.
But if it's #2 that really makes you feel like a campaign setting and plot are immersive, then origin stories give the game a lot of tools to create that feeling of integration, at the expense of your character having some pre-generated archetypical features.
I recognize that you are someone who gets their sense of joy out of #1 and doesn't care much about #2, and that's cool. But saying that #1 is what defines DnD, to the point of excluding character/setting integration, I don't think that's true for everyone who plays DnD.
