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I fail to see how great customization is when it clearly provides nothing but style in my opinion.
This has already been explained to you on the previous page. What it provides is an increased feeling of immersion, individuality, and freedom of expression, which may not be valuable to you personally, but it should hardly be a surprise that it is something that players of role-playing games desire, given that immersion is a core aspect of RPGs.
I jokingly compared it to this site's avatars, user titles, and signatures on the previous page, but I do think that is fairly apt - we don't *need* to be able to choose our own images or sayings to display on an online forum, and there is no physical reward for doing so, but it allows users to personalize their posts, and helps to keep things less monotonous. For instance, you are clearly a fan of Arceus and Dragon types, and are able to show that via your avatar. You don't get any prize for doing it, but it makes your account stand out as your own.
If somebody has no interest in doing this, they are entirely capable of declining to use such features, in the games, on this site, or wherever. And that's good too - declining to exercise one's right to self-expression is itself a form of expression and is as valid as any other. But there is a considerable difference between withholding your own self-expression, and taking away avenues of self-expression from others just because you don't want to partake in that option yourself.
That's my piece, and I'm gonna' leave it at that.