So, watching the most recent character creation videos:
I noticed that skills seem to be allocated based on class / background with no menu item on the left or obvious place on any of the screens to actually select / customise your starting skills. The fextralife video doesn't mention selecting skills at all as part of character creation. Obviously this is quite different from EA but fits with pact of the tome locked cantrips, bard college of lore skills being locked in EA so I wonder if Larian has decided to 'streamline' some aspects of character creation by locking skills to class/background. Pretty disappointing if that is the case.
