Storm Raven
First Post
That severely understates the time and system knowledge required to select skills and feats, as compared to the "roll and/or pick one" nature of the other elements, and it gets even worse if a player intends to take a PrC later.
It takes at most a few minutes to pick a feat. A few minutes to pick skills. Most are well summarized and you only need to look at a few more fully to decide.
The "if a player intends to pick a PrC later" is exactly the sort of agonizing over things that will happen many months down the line that I pointed out you don't actually have to do. (And one could argue a PrC makes feat and skill selection easier, since it guides the player to make some choices without having to think about them).