So, good news, bad news, for anyone who's still keeping up with this and hasn't explored the character creation yet (I'll try to update this elsewhere as well). The halfling masc body types have been replaced from earliest access to a well-done fat body type with no issues. An example of the previous lean body types for halflings is Arron's, the halfling seller at the druid grove, which has been left unchanged despite the implementation. However, this only applies to them--there are still no femme fat bodies nor are there fat bodies for other races despite dwarf and human/undead fat models being in game.
I don't know if this is where this feature stops or if Larian will implement more fat bodies later, but thank you for at least that in the face of further adversity.
