This is a way to show that just because a race might have the same options as each other, the combinations you can make are much different
For example:
- Human females have 10 things you can customize
- Male mechagnomes also have 10 things you can customize
- You can make almost 6000x more unique human females over male mechagnomes
- Pandaren females - 6 things to customize
- Nightborne males - 6 things to customize
- 318x more female Pandaren over Nightborne males
- Zandalari Female vs. Male Dwarves - 11 things to customize
- 8340x more unique Male Dwarves
- "But allied races" "But genders"
- Night Elf vs Tauren females - 15 customizable options
- 54 times more Night Elf females
More things to customize doesn't mean more possible unique characters
It's not manipulation. If orcs had 20 skin colors and no other customization and humans had 2 skin colors and 2 eye colors and 10 hair styles then you can make 40 different humans but only 20 different orcs
Humans have 9 layers of customization, Orcs have 16
A Human with 40 faces and 40 hairstyles is 1,600 unique humans
An Orc with 10 faces, 10 hairstyles, 10 skin colors, and 10 tattoo styles is 10,000 unique Orcs
More customizable options = more unique characters vs more options per customization
