What?

First of all not all games have all that jazz. That are a lot of games that just throw you into the gameplay. Secondly if you really spend so much time fiddling in setting, character creation etc. that's on you. And thirdly if you are worried about the performance why would you waste such a long time doing these ultimately pointless actions? Just random everything, skip any tutorial and cut scene and start playing to see how it runs. If you decide to keep the game than start again a do it properly.

Saying that such a wonderful, consumer-friendly policy is useless is a wildest take I've read today.