To reiterate, while I am critical of the concept, my initial suggestion was not to erase it from the game (which I realize is highly unlikely to happen), but to adjust reactivity making it based on appearance so it's not jarringly dissonant - which kind of removes the entire justification for it's addition in the first place, all things considered... Either that or provide more androgynous appearance options so that there's at least a degree of believability to it.
The last point still stands as a testament to the character customization remaining very bare-bones and not showing many signs of improving all that much upon release - we'll have scars and body types, almost certainly facial markings for the githyanki... and that's about it as far as stuff being confirmed goes? DA:I is almost a decade old at this point, and it had a reasonably powerful appearance editor which did have non-standard facial features for dwarves and qunari while having detailed facial animations in dialogues (granted, they were very uncanny-valleish, but it tried, at least). Just choosing a preset head and messing around a bit with hair and makeup is incredibly limiting by comparison - limiting enough that people resort to mods to actually make something different-looking.
