I don't think it's cheesy at all. And many character builds have long histories or weird psychology at play
Some of my oddities:
Temple of Elemental Evil tracks how many times you reroll the dice. So I naturally have to delete my characters k don't like after my first roll and then try again. I'm a one-roll man. Except I roll it once hundreds of times.
In Eye of the Beholder, I max everything. I mean, why not? It seems to me that they want you to. But I still feel a little guilty doing it. There must be something wonderfully human about feeling guilty for such a trivial thing.
In Baldur's Gate, my first day of playing is just character creation. Icewind Dale? Ha! It's a week of game just to start.
When facial tweaks became available, I'd regularly spend ages tweaking eye separation and nose length, etc, and never be satisfied. Then I got the random button a few dozen times, pass a few I'd rather have preferred (but I'm clocking too fast) and then finally be moderately satisfied, then tweak it done more, be more dissatisfied, but give up, and then move on.
This happens basically every time. It's really weird. Buy I love it.