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?
Character customization is really barebones in CRPGs, including BG3 - although it's come a long way.
One of the stronger innovations of 5E was the development of background to suggest key personality trait(s), core ideal, world setting bonds and defining flaw. Identity as gender is fine I suppose, it is an aspect of character, but I'd rather have 5E background choices.
Wouldn't it be nice to be older or younger, and some NPCs sometimes respond in kind? Or chaste, with decline dialogues. Or being unable to resist chicken chasing due to a flaw. Personality choices at character creation that open and close specific options sprinkled throughout the game. Way too much work to implement on the fly, it would have had to been a core design years back.
