It's depressing that a lot of the racial options are locked because of in-universe fantasy racism. Honestly kind of makes me want to skip the game entirely if they maintain that angle, especially with a lot of more modern D&D products moving past it because... make believe racism is really shitty to experience, too.
...honestly if the choice was being stuck with just the demihuman races from the PHB like fifteen goddamn flavors of elves, humans, and three short humans, I'd want to burn the whole setting down too.
Hyperbolic I know, but for gods' sake I'm tired of being the exact same Tolkien rehashes again and again and again.
