Originally Posted by NinthPlane
I suspect Larian had advance knowledge of the content in TCoE. Most significant is that race selection will no longer shoe-horn you into specific classes to feel "optimized". This alone should make that book outstanding.

Powergamers will always feel shoehorned into optimization one way or another, the D&D racial bonuses/penalties reflect physical and cultural differences. Humans being the most flexible of the races is the human racial bonus.