Nargott
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The whole point is that they are almost like the next level of skills for the races. In your case, you'll have to additionally level up both a racial and a non-racial skill, but in my case, you won't have to level up an additional racial skill.
For example, "Lucky Gates" is a good skill; in the original game, it comes from "Soldier's Luck." It requires 2 levels of Luck and Soldier's Luck (a total of 3 perks). When transferred to a racial skill, it requires: 1 level of Luck, Soldier's Luck, and 1 level of the racial skill (a total of 3 perks). And if a level in the racial skill is free (as is usually the case at the start), then it can be taken even faster (for basic Luck + Soldier's Luck). In addition, since Luck is not fixed, in addition to Lucky Gates and Soldier's Luck, you can also level up a couple more lucky perks. And if, for some reason, we don't want to level up any racial perk, then we have a choice of what to level up instead in the racial skill.
In the original, if we, for example, don't need "Hellfire," but we need a racial skill, then we will simply have an empty racial skill slot.
In the end, yes, it's obvious that there are significantly more combinations of racial + luck skills when distributing points (we choose both in Luck and in the racial skill). In the original, the maximum racial skill had only one option, but here both skills have variations even at the maximum level.
In the original, we leveled up Soldier's Luck + Lucky Gates + 1 any perk from Luck; plus all or some of the perks from the racial skill. Here, we level up Soldier's Luck + 2 any perks from Luck; plus, in the racial skill, we additionally level up 2 optional perks (and not 3 out of 3).
P.S. And I would advise you not to think in terms of "your option - my option," because in that case, you automatically defend your option (because it's "yours"), and objectivity is lost. Evaluate both options objectively, without personal attachment.