I do NOT care to play "as a preset", that is not Divinity
Nor do I as it goes.
There are quite a lot of posts here saying Larian are planning to let you define all 4 characters in future without dodgy workarounds. Whether this is true or wishful thinking I couldn't say. Hopefully.
Ifan put me off initially but I discovered that actually I didn't mind him all that much. He just seems a bit scruffy and disreputable and kind of reminds me of Nobby Nobbs from Pratchett's "Guards" books, though that's probably just me.
That's it, thank you! That one comment rings so true for me my opinion has flipped from annoyance to "ahhh, bless"...