I dont have any issues with someone else playing the game differently, that doesnt mean that everything that has been modded in the past,and will no doubt be modded in the feature become a vanilla feature.
Wasting time on something that will probably be the first thing to be modded into the game anyway, if it hasnt been done already, is atrocious indeed.
Armagan even said as an answer himself during an interview "will X feature be in vanilla game?" "No but there will no doubt be mods for that."
They already know how passionate the modding community is, VC and the current mods being developed with TW are proof of that.
EDIT: here you go,
play as different character