This is the murder of the lore of the world, at its core, because an elf has a beard
You don't want to see stream captures of a bearded elf, because you won't like it, and you feel like the lore cannot hold such a sight, despite no less than 3 examples in this thread it would make logical (and hilarious) sense.
That is a lot of "You"'s in that. I'm debating for the addition of choice and player agency, not the murder of lore. They still design and include every NPC in the world.
However, I will point out that you very neatly undo your own argument.
If there WILL be mods for this, and people WILL stream them, you WILL see them and have your lore murdered whether Larian allows us to easily do so, or not.
The only difference in your scenario is whether or not Larian is nice enough to enable it easily for the people that want it. And so you're saying what, No, don't be nice to us?
Weird stance to take.
