I sont disagree with this as a general normal statment, but i also think a a Orc could just be just as itelligent as high elf, its just less likely... and thats where this becomes porblematic, a fixed +2 makes it impossible to start as inteligent as a highelf, even if it was less likely...

To make a comparison, to the drow example, their normaly evil, so is it sound to state they get a bonus to being evil, yet they can be just as good as any other race, or do you think drow should be limited from certain good alignments just couse their as a norm is more evil aligned andhas a (+2) at being evil...

i like racials that define races at their core, for example all forest gnomes can speak with animals... and certain dwarves have a inate ability or affinity with rocks... or as that other poster pointed at from Divinity that Elves ate brains...

I want to point out that, i personaly dont really think either way is wrong to play, i just prefer DnD one route more, why not have both, and if people want to roll their stats, let em, ts a single player coop game, im not going to dictate how people have fun lol ...