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Sure, you're absolutely right, which is why I may continue to tweak and update my mods. Unfortunately, though, OOTP doesn't give us a lot of room to do this without sacrificing a lot of other ethnicities around the world in order to create the necessary mods.
However, I controlled for your concern in my work. Also, one thing I will point out is that, with some of these common Asian surnames in America, many people who have them don't necessarily fit the usual Facegen 'appearance' that you'd expect. If you view the lists of prominent people of various ethnicities in America and then look at their pictures, it becomes clear that these "mismatches" are quite common among the most popular Asian names that go back generations in America. But that's why I don't add anything beyond the top few Asian names, which are almost all Chinese by the way. Beyond those, the "mismatches" are much more rare, so I exclude those possibilities.
The theory behind my limited use of them in the U.S. modern nameset is that, yes, these players will end up being a certain racial type at the same ratio as other Americans, but the world_default.xml file still pulls the vast majority of American players with those surnames from their dedicated namesets and with the usual Facegen that you'd expect.
So, in the end, you get the occasional Asian surname and a Facegen that is Caucasian, Hispanic, or African rather than Asian, which is realistic on the Caucasian side and might even make sense for a Hispanic Facegen with a guy like Bruce Chen (if he was American).
However, the vast majority of American players with Asian surnames will still come from the dedicated Asian namesets. So the names and Facegens will match, meaning that the exceptions will be rare.
For me, if I end up with a name and Facegen that doesn't match to my liking, then I simply regenerate it. And, since the frequencies are so low, this seems very manageable to me. In fact, in my testing, I still haven't seen some of my Asian exceptions yet.
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