My point is merely that Larian needn’t bother with the extra work involved in the latter for my sake, as it just isn’t important to me.
Clearly it is for some folk, while others are more like me. Just putting my preference out there so it can be balanced against other feedback.
The extra work on starting gear would help improve the role play experience by a lot. One of the cRPG's core features is the character creation, many cRPG fans put a lot of times, hours, into character creation.
Besides, the starting gear matter can be solved in a very cheap way, which is to make everyone every class start with casual clothing. Because the player char Tav is a Baldurian who got kidnapped during a normal day. There is no good reason behind for a high dex low str fighter to wear scale armor during a normal day. But he or she wearing just some normal shirt on that normal day would be most logical.
As for the starting weapon, just place a few weapons on the ground or some dead corpses or some chest in the tutorial chapter for player to loot.
