Player agency, as a rule, does not mean you get to play by a custom-tailored ruleset.
Do you really think it is too much to ask for the option to play with the racial ASI we had throughout 3 years of early access?
Sorry, but we already have to mod the game to high heaven just to play it mostly like 5E. Can we not even have this?
I actually don't care at all if a game adheres to a specific version of a well-known ruleset. I only care that it works under the rules the developers eventually choose to implement. And Early Access is usually made possible in the mutual understanding that rules can change at any time. Consider: with no Early Access you might not have known the old rule ever existed.
So yes, I do, in fact, think it is not reasonable to expect the developers to implement two different rules for the same thing. Using mods for the purpose of adjusting the rules according to your preference is, meanwhile, perfectly legitimate.
