All you mofos who don't like robes can stuff it, y'all ain't REAL wizards.
Also, the reason we look the same through the game is that they had a design for the inquisitor, regardless of how you built them. If you're a surly dwarf or an ancient wizard with a foot long beard you've still got the same tight pants and leather vest design that everyone has. They tried to make this up with adding additional armor schematics based on race, but fell quite short of the diversity we see in NPCs. And not your companions, either. Just normal NPCs walking around. I can sort of understand the design theory, but it's silly in a game where people design their own main character and control how they feel, speak, and dress. All it does is leave people who don't fit their design profile feeling frustrated.
At the VERY LEAST, let us Proper Wizards use the actual Orlesian Battlemage armor instead of the Free Army version. I mean cmon it's in the game, why would you make them both the same armor guys.