Yes, it was/is a lot of work
There are several ways to create a character. Excel-Sheet, Open-Office-Sheet, By-Hand, RMO, the spanish Libre de Esher, ... Every program has its own output and you have to chose your favorite one.
I've used the german official character sheet as template and optimized it to support the players with new features.
Example:
A magical weapon (marked as favorite) is printed under the weapon skill in smaller font. This feature is not supported by the original character sheet.
Example 2:
What if your character has 15 weapon skills? RMO expands the space ...
If you don't like the generated sheet, please tell me what you don't like. I need the users feedback