Some of my favorite games over the years have had a lot of crunch. Creating Champions / Hero System characters, or even new characters for Pathfinder take a lot of time. For the core system of Lovecraft RPG, there are going to be Basic and Advanced Rules, and the actual Lovecraft portion of the game – the meat of the game – will be separate. You can pick a character template that fits with the character types you find in Lovecraft’s works, make a few modifications to personalize the character, then be up and running and ready to go in 10 minutes or so.