You guys saying changing animations it would homogenize, play ESO or Warframe a bit.

Racial animations would just be the starting animations.
Then there would be more unlockable animations. It could have different categories, like walking style and personality.

In ESO, for example, personality changes how idle behavior, running style, how some emotes play out. Like the Angry personality makes you character not only showing an angry face all the time but it also makes you, for no good reason randomly family-friendly curse. While the jester personality makes you walk like a clown and run in really comedic way.