tbf, I don't think you don't need to impede the player themself that much to give a much stronger impression of systemic oppression. In Dragon Age: Origins it's definitely a lot more present, though it doesn't really affect the player themselves ultimately. Like the ghettos ("alienages") in the game are definitely a lot more enforced compared to the Grey Quarter in Skyrim (i.e. they are walled off with guarded gates, and they get locked down occasionally when e.g. riots happen inside), though an elven player isn't ever actually barred from entering a city or anything, other than during the origin quest. And the same goes for the other origins, specifically mage and dwarf commoner, the player basically only really faces the systemic part during the origin quest, after which them being a Warden kind of just supersedes all of that? (Though people will still give you shit, especially if you are an elf)

i dunno i'd have a lot of fun subverting an unjust hierarchy with ultraviolence, that's still power fantasy