Hey! Well if this is one for the road, please allow me to extend a very hearty debt of gratitude, as this is quite a haul in terms of insights and bug/QoL reports -- thank you as always.
First off, I'm a bit behind in catching up on all the messages, but please let me know if you'd like to be credited as a playtester in the itch and Steam versions of the game. And also: would you like to be immortalised as an NPC? And if so, what name would you like?
As to the bug report: yep there's some genuine bugs here that go beyond QoL. I'd also say that some of them, such as the character customisation, just simply haven't been implemented yet in the itch version as it was so deep in the list of the systems to implement. But you're absolutely right, and actually that's a massive oversight that really should have been prioritised. This game is inclusive all the way and while I've been careful to attend to as much as possible, sometimes you miss some big things. So, yes, absolutely: character customisation is coming very shortly. I don't know if I'll be able to reverse engineer it into the itch version - there's a bunch of technical and architecture reasons - but I'll see.
Thank you again!