God I hate the direction WOTC's been going for like... a while.
Agreed, it appears that WOTC is determined to sabotage their best selling property.
I hate to be THAT guy, but it's clear the recent changes to race and alignment are an eggshell-walking attempt at not offending certain contemporary ideologies, without considering that the race and alignment implementation had systems involved that made race and alignment feel more real in the context of a tabletop campaign, and sacrificing everything for "woke" (hate the word, have to use it) appeal makes the collaborative, systems-based storytelling less convincing. You might as well gut combat while you're at it, and say that having probability-based combat wasn't inclusive enough to people who don't like math, so now everyone just DESCRIBES what they're doing in combat and we get rid of those pesky rolls and +1s (not actually happening, but I feel it is in the same vein). WOTC could have replaced the current alignment and racial system with a more inclusive one that doesn't involve chunking the systems that made game storytelling persuasive, but there's still too much social risk involved, so might as well trash them.
Anyway, my feedback to Larian in particular: If we can't get alignment, and many roleplay options are based on tags, give us a tag-based reputation later on in the game based on our decisions. No "inherent" alignment, but we still get to define our character in certain moral/social contexts.
