@zowashere The Keep never got anything from the first two games other than gender, class, name, avatar and, for Origins, race/origin. Some people had trouble getting their heroes to upload properly to the Keep/BSN, which is why the default heroes being there was useful.
You always had to select all the choices in the tapestry yourself, and that was always the intention. This allowed people who hadn't played the first two games or had but no longer had the saves to make custom world states.
DAI playthroughs should, however, be uploading to the Keep (decisions and all) and saved in 'playthrough states', theoretically to be used in DA4 when it comes out.