So Larian said they wanted to add more (all?) core races from D&D (which does not mean that they will do it in the end, after all they didn't promise it, just said they want to).
But there is a problem with gnomes, specifically that they are incompatible with mind flayer tadpoles. And that is not legacy information from previous edition, but has been confirmed by the latest adventure released for D&D.
So that means abducting gnomes for implantation would not make sense at all as at best it would create a horrible mutated mind flayer (squidling) which is hated and instantly killed by proper flayer.
