Totally agree with this. Thanks for saying it so well. 
As for my inquisitors I only play females so I'm thinking of playing one of each race... well planning to with the awareness I'll probably play a couple of different qunari and elf inquisitors before I get to humans and dwarves and I'm not confident I'll finish a dwarf play through even though I like having dwarves in the world and would have loved a female dwarf companion. I tend to lose interest in dwarf play throughs... and the camera angle annoys me too... although the difference between the perspectives of dwarf and qunari might be interesting.
Oh... even though I won't play a male inquisitor I will probably take control of male companions briefly at least... especially in dark potentially spider filled caves. I'm thinking of sending my least favourite companion ahead to lure out spiders so they can't scare me coming out of nowhere.
(second least favourite if Cole turns out to be my least favourite
).
As for mounts I'm curious to see what's in game since there are several to collect apparently*. Also did they confirm no halla in game or just that the pre order bonus was not a halla to clear up confusion because it was originally called a red heart halla in advertising?
*This totally makes me think of pokemon for some reason... gotta collect 'em all 
On halla... they mentioned that you could have the "red hart halla," which has also been called a red hart with the "halla" addendum being a mistake. I think that it's a mistake.
I don't think we actually are going to get a halla, and that makes me very sad because I want my Dalish riding around on a pretty white deer with carved antlers, dagnabbit. Ah well...
As for how I'm feeling about representation... pretty good, in terms of women, but I feel bad with the latest romance reveal, because LGBT folks are probably feeling pretty left out right now... straight men, maybe also...
As for pretty dresses, I am kind of wishing we'll have some kind of minigame where we can gather materials to make an outfit for the ball. The more work we put into it, the more impressive the outfit (be it a suit or a dress). I doubt it will happen, but if it did, well, wouldn't it be fun to run around casually in some big froofy frilly dress? (I'd like it, anyway.)