Character doubles and doubles of characters

This was raised few times in different ways but still:

Now we have (and will have) sort of double of every characters.
Magic user? Two small women from two different cultures.
Warrior? Two big men from two different cultures.
Magical Warrior? Well off course two big man from two different cultures.
Etc.for all types, just doubles.

Why it was locked that the all similar characters are of the same gender?

Would be cool to have option to be a strong warrior women, an ocult obsesed dude warlock, a lady martial artist etc. So to have sort of a double you could choose for each class.

I know if's not about gameplay, and isn't the most important but it's a weird design choice and would be great to remedy it. I hope in the future they will tackle it after more pressing matters are resolved. And then everyone gain the option to change once each character created (as they would have the option upon selecting this character).

just said similar myself too, it was not so prominent in poe1 to me and tolerable, which i put down to it be lower detail models and less gendered armour art.
but with adding weird booba physics and more detailed models its much more jarring to me now. i wanna play gigalass str character

For PoE 1 there were one of every character type, so it didn't look so bad (even if diablo 3 already had two gender options for each class).

Now in PoE2 there are two of each and each pair is a double so it's much more jarring. And we are in 2025 so it's even worse.

+1

Yeah, sometimes I'd like to be a big black dude who focuses on crit daggers or something instead of always starting near oonga boonga and tribal totems.

my wife doesnt want to play male characters, first thing she asked when druid was around, 'is it male or female'