If you don't like the start stats are the same for everyone, when you pick a race give that race the stats that they had before. Problem solved. You are not playing against others. No one is forcing you to make these choices. Why is MORE choice bad?
If only it were that simple... but it's not. Shield Dwarves, Half-elves and humans lose stat points they had before, in case of humans they lose 3 stat points for example. Also you have to consider multiplayer where it's quite frankly not an option to simply "gimp" your character unless your playing with your friends. The choice between the old racial ASI and the new ones is simply not given, so no... we don't have more choices, we have less.
