You ask me, the races are nowhere near good enough to compensate for this. I mean in practice, most of them are not really all that. Lizard race propably has like 90% of equipment blocked, so you'll have this more or less same looking lizard for every player.
Then you have what basically amounts to glowing eyes and elf ears. Nice bonus but very small bonus in practical terms for me, and some have gender limitations still. Super disappointed in CaS stuff so far, becasue IMO, if you can't do better than your last game, at least stay exactly the same level, don't be even worse at anything.
On positive note, it takes a lot of the hype away for me so I don't have to feel anxious all the time. Sorry for the negativity, I just hate how much the word "compromise" this whole game seems to embody.