If this is the future of BG3 modding then console players may as well give up.
Automated only if mods aren't causing crashes, which the race mods were. I'm more wondering if they're ever actually going to prioritize fixing it. They prioritized people who had over 100 mods over fixing the race mods causing crashes on console. Playing as different races gives way more replayability to the game and adds more combinations possible to try out between races/classes/subclasses/etc. I've been pushing for it on here for a while now. There's a Shadar-Kai mod that looks really cool, but I only have the game on Mac and Console.
The more variance of starting and dialogue options, the more ways to go back and play all over again, but it doesn't seem like that's something that's cared too deeply about at the moment.