Considering how much you liked pathfinder it's a bit weird. Enemy stats have absolutely nothing to do with pnp.
Why then should larian stick to them too?
I don't really care about mob stats and how much they are in line with 5e.
It does not matter at all, and I used the kobolds as an example of a banal enemy that is not a threat.
How is the fight to be interesting and interesting if most of the fights in the game are to be trivial enough for you to have 6-7 fights to rest. This means that at least 2/3 of these fights will not be the slightest challenge. In most fights you are limited to only cantrips which again means that the fight is extremely boring.
And that's the definition of trash mob.
What should I care about, even if each enemy in the game is unique, it doesn't suddenly make the fight challenging or interesting.
This is supposed to be a TACTICAL RPG game, not some 5e simulator.