Most D&D players would disagree. Most of the ASI are nice, but rather wasted on standard humans, while variant humans are ranked among the very best races. The variant human also "break the mold" of the generalist human, turning him into the best expert. Moreover, in BG3 the variant human would be made incredibly potent due to Larian's unbalancing homebrew.
As a variant human you can start with Sharpshooter or Great Weapon Master feat, and take the -5 penalty on attack for the +10 damage MUCH more indiscriminately, considering you're pretty much guaranteed advantage on attack rolls against enemies that generally have lower AC than they would in proper D&D. Most consider these feats from the very best to overpowered - even without homebrew that trivializes the penalty.
Likely strongly unbalancing for the first several levels. But hey, as long as people have "fun", Larian clearly doesn't care two hoots about balance.
SS and GWM isn’t all that great at lower levels. They start to shine at level 5 and up. The penalties are big at level 1-4. Extra attacks offset some of the penalties. And at level 6, fighters can grab ASI + proficiency bonus to reduce the penalty a little.
