Well, this is Battle Brothers, not Mount & Blade, it is pointless to change the pace, the stats, to implement strenght, dexterity and other RPG attributes, it would change the game entirely.
The only thing I agree with you here is the need for a Character Customisation, that would be really awesome and with Paul’s art it would add en extra layer of variation, since we don’t see many char creation with that kind of art.