Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Suggestion: Change tweak racial passives

I partially agree. For one, specific attributes being preferred for a given race is like the bread and butter of racial bonuses in RPGs. That being said, of course "everbody does it" does not mean it has to be that way.

I actually think the racial special abilities are already a very good step towards having more generic, always useful abilities, and I think Larian did well to design them.

However, I can also agree that specifically finesse (Elf) and strength (Dwarf) are rather specific and not easily useful with many classes.
Maybe an easy compromise would be to just change them to Constitution (Dwarf) and Memory (Elf), which are more generally useful. The memory stat would also go well with the corps eater ability.