Perhaps BG4 would port 6e. Until then it makes little sense to not stick to source material for the base game. Then nothing prevent you from going homebrew in a mod but deviating too much in the base game makes little sense beside minor arrangement to fit to the video game format.
So clearly +1 on having the variant human.
But for custom, fitting your own preferences, rules go mod. It is meant for this.
By this logic you would also want the completely lackluster Ranger class no one likes instead of the altered Ranger we have now? I'm just saying 5e is not perfect and since some things were changed, others can as well.
