I've been lurking in this forum for months, but this discussion pushed me into creating an account.
Not only I agree with OP, oneD&D agree with OP and hopefully (from the screen Alodar posted above) Larian agree with OP, but racial stats are just bad.
Do races needs to feel different between eachother? Absolutely yes, but racial stats are the most boring and problematic way to do so possible.
Numbers are boring. My Dragonborn isn't defined by having a bonus to constitution, they are defined by the ability to breath fire! My high elf isn't defined by being dexterous, but by his innate magical cantrips. In divinity elves had that amazing cannibalistic feature, and there is no amount of crazy stat bonuses that I would take over that ability.
Racial stats not only are boring and say so little of our characters, but they are actually nothing more than an hindrance. Half orc druid? How cool is that? Sad that it's going to always suck compared to a dwarf druid, which honestly doesn't sound half as cool.
As someone said before, players characters are unique, extraordinary. A common elf might be more agile than a common dwarf, but our character is not a commoner. Is a common drow evil? Yeah, but we also have Drizzt. Special people are just special.
So what's the solution? Get rid of these old stuff that are racial bonuses and double down on actual features that can make races truly unique.
