I must say I agree almost intirely with your report.
I still haven't tried anything besides the character editor, so I can't opinionate on the other subjects. x)
As far as the char editor goes, I think you explained it quite well ;P Some things are missing or not doing anything.
One thing I think would be neat to have would be curly dog tails. But that's something to post on the suggestions part of the forum ;p
My first reaction after opening the game was "Woah". I love that music. Seriously. And the bg is also pretty darn good. I noticed the rough edges too, but I figured you could minimize those with the anti-alias option. ^_^
Well. I just want to play it on multiplayer so I can save mah babehs. x)