If you want to roll a melee character that you can customize, that character is a warrior.

It's not a shifter. Shifters are a dice roll. At their best, they're better then most warriors even naked. At their worst, they suck.

Classes are supposed to be differentiated, and this is the shifter niche. They are a dice rolling melee class with ABS instead of superior parry and the choice to choose special abilities. (Legacies.)

If you're asking for shifters to choose their forms you're basically asking for warrriots to choose their legacies and then have ABS.

Plenty of people have taken subpar shifter rolls and done something with them. The fact that you're choosing not to is not a fault in the system. You're advocating to reroll until you get a shifter with great forms (a form of CF easy mode) and complaining that you can't have easy mode on command.

It's ridiculous. The core design of shifters is a dice roll. You win, you lose, or you come out even. Neutering the best forms and just letting people pick is pathetic, because the warrior class already exists. CF is better with different options in how you play and hope to win.