It also don't present the choices to make in a simple order. You often have to go back and forth between tabs (skills is a particular bad example, since you choose 2 in the Origin tab, and some more in the Skills tab, and the presentation in that latter tab really isn't great).
+1
Oh yes, it took us quite a lot of head scratching and swearing to figure out which skills/profficiencies came from race, class, background, or state of the tide at Ghent ... :P
In character creation my knowledge of 2nd and 3/3,5 editions sometimes helped, sometimes led us down false paths ...
But we are drifting outside the topic.
So, it was a choice between newbie players either facing bewildering choices at Tavgenesis, or to play their Paladins in non-Paladin, not Oathbound manner, and then face a bewildering choice at lvl 3?