Character creation.

[Shougun]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I seem to recall the exact same style of limitations there, likely for the same reasons.

I wouldn't say so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nKUdF2bQQ

It's similarly limited style (although unless we try to skew things with race numbers I'm fairly confident that Legion's released creation editor has fewer options than FFXIV's current).