Made Caucaisan character ... both parents not white.

Yeah, me too.  To be honest, I think this thread is just a whole bunch of hyperbole and butt hurt, though.  I've been able to make pale characters based on several presets.  I've made five characters (four Scotts and one Sara) and all of the Scotts have been white.  With the exception of my current guy not being quite as pale as I'd like (again, he comes across as a tan white guy versus a pale white guy), I haven't had any issues with skin color.  And I've met Alec with three of those Scotts and his skin tone has been totally comparable in every case. 

But, yeah, the CC is not great.  I never realized how important some of the basic stuff is until it's gone (like adjusting eye size -- that one just baffles me).  It really very much limits how far away from the default face you can go.  But I'm only planning three playthroughs (one per m/m LI and one with Sara as the PC), so I only need to make three attractive male faces.  I made two (my guy and the twin for my Sara), but I'm not super confident about the third one.  I wasn't even able to finish the trial because I played a little MP, spent a huge amount of time trying to beat the CC into submission, and then started over after the prologue planet when I decided that I just couldn't stand my original Scott (based on the blond default that I posted above).  And I ran out of time so I couldn't get to the end point (was probably about an hour or two away).

On a plus side, I've had ZERO issues with making great looking Sara's.  I've made five (a twin for each of the four Scott's I made and my PC Sara) and they were all great looking and I was super happy with all of them.  So that's good.