I agree that the racial stuff they've given humans are pretty lame. For starters I think racial weapon proficiencies are silly to begin with, but why are humans getting halberd proficiency? What's the story logic behind that? Same with extra carrying capacity and even light armor. It feels like they just slapped some random stuff together.
If you meet a field labororer in the forgotten realms its probably a human with a pitch fork. A town guard? A human with a spear
Also many traditionally human gods like Chauntea have a strong relation to polerms and the whole evil necromancer with a scythe trope is mostly a human thing too.
