Overall I'm happy with the way the character creator works. All the characters I've made look really nice, because they have nice preset design pieces that look good.

I'm not bothered that other people are able to create the same or similar characters - I'm able to make them unique for me.

There are always going to be little things that aren't what you're after, but at the large scale they give a good range of options.

Perhaps it's different if you're starting with a preconceived character idea and want to recreate that idea in-game, but from the starting point of "play around in the character creator until you find something that looks nice", it's great.