I have to agree with all of this so much...
The whole game is so thought out and personal that it seems odd just to add a few faces to choose from (same with the body types) - it's one of the main reasons I use mods.. which ofc developers shouldn't rely on but at least there is that. The halflings and gnomes just do not look appealing to me at all.. the hands are just a bit too big and the faces again are not complimenting it. It makes me not want to play them since I need to like how my character looks at least to some degree. The game is great enough that the lack of aesthetic freedom doesn't bother me too much but it's a little sad that they didn't took the chance to give us a little bit more creativity with the design of our characters.