"You'll have some options."
I'm frustrated with this whole 'character creation' controversy and trying to figure out what it is that i'm missing.
If the link above doesn't link to the time jump, the question they respond to is exactly 1:00 into the video. Chad Robertson says, in response to the question, "What makes the Traveler, the Player Character, unique in the story?" spends about 12-ish seconds introducing the idea and noting specifically, "You'll have some options," as far as a character creator goes. Then the other approximately 43 seconds is spent talking about how it's the choices you make in the story [supported with skill tree and gameplay choices] that will define what shapes the character and who they become.
This makes sense... The elements in that last 43 seconds are the crux of what i've seen from Achetype on character creation and that goes all the way back to the start of the series. Those choices and that narrative-driven approach have always been a foundational component of all these Founders Q&A's and communications that i'm aware of.
I've tried to look through other media and interviews and seen nothing more explicit about character creation than this. Did I miss the deep dive where they explained CC was going to work? I will admit this video above is the last with Ohlen before his departure and when [for me at least] 'the writing was on the wall,' and I dialed my interest way down as a result, but I just spent my lunch hour diving through Google/Youtube to no avail.