Would you use an external character creator?

[Jeeqbit]

It could probably be done easily. After all, the Benchmark itself is effectively an external character creator. All they do is produce a file that can be imported when creating a character in the actual game.

I do recall they mentioned they were planning to rework how the model bones/meshes etc. work at some point in the future

They mentioned that this system was designed with the future in mind so that they can adjust it as systems improve.

they need to stop using "spaghetti code" as their excuse for everything

I rarely see them say this or anything similar to it. They have said it's difficult to turn S ranks into FATEs and that's about all I can remember.

They usually blame hardware, network and database considerations, which are reasonable. They don't use cloud servers, so there is a genuine gap between area servers, world servers and data centers. They often say that too much database or network traffic would cause major issues.

None of this is spaghetti code. From their perspective, they are hardware limitations. My personal experience doesn't agree with many of these "limitations", but I'm just pointing out that SE isn't blaming their code; they are blaming their hardware setup.

They have denied there is spaghetti code from 1.0 (see my signature), but it's logical to assume there is spaghetti code from 2.0, because the rest of the game is built upon the foundation of 2.0, yet we have moved away from many of the principles of 2.0.