Any MMO worth its salt will have MANY different options for the look of armor and weapons. To have ONE veteran armor look for your character seems to me a touch silly, and in fact we see that "handmade jerkin" and "________ jerkin" do look different. Secondly, one of the great things about MMO's is chase gear and the ability to distinguish yourself by your armor. i.e. fire mage from a frost mage ect. Lastly I think the intention of having those options in the character creation screen, is for you to make the best possible character for you, for example if you are making a 10 foot tall badass Nord who is always going to wear max heavy armor maybe you wont care about body marking or tattoos. If the veteran armor shown on the character creation screen is the best we can currently get then I have to say I am disappointed, because they really don't look that great. At its core you want high level characters to look badass and lowbies to look like peasants, so you have something to work up to. I hate to say it but WOW/blizzard does an incredible job of this. All that being said I would hope and assume that there will be great looking armor and weapons later in the game, or added at a later date, after all we are only one day into the early access.

TLDR; armor shown in Character creation, may just show an example so you can make a build to your liking, we are only 1 day into early access, maybe there is better looking stuff in late game, I personally hope there is a Nightingale looking armor hidden somewhere.