Variant Human gets 2 feats then - the one given by their class and their free feat. Still special. And giving everyone a free feat unbalances all classes equally - unlike many of the other balance changes people argue against - where the solution is just to make combats more difficult to compensate.
I like this idea aswell ...
At least for Early Acess (and potentialy as part of difficiulty settings) more potential Feats mean more potential testing! :P