I've been asking myself the same question a lot lately.

I recently bought a game that had been on my wishlist since very early access and had released, got into character creation, and instead of "street urchin, bard" or "blacksmith's apprentice, highwayman", what I got for character creation was "pick the flavor of fagaloon that makes your fronthole tingle". Zir, 'male', female body, male voice, pansexual? Yep, there's your RPG element.

Refunded that shit inside of ten minutes, and spent five of them messing with video options and looking at keybinds.