Thanks for the traditional DD essay!
Customization: Immediate change is on the list. Stat assignment is an interesting idea, but i need to think about where i wanna go with classes (or if i wanna ditch them) first.
Small UI elements are a result of me being lazy and making them the absolute minimum first for this version. Resize and reposition manually by the user came to my mind as well, i will test this soon.
The disappearing club seems to be a recurring bug. I thought i fixed it, but you proved me wrong.