Fully agree, but I have lost confidence in Larian actually reverting this decision or even provide a reasonable option. Seems they and/or WotC are hellbent in destroying any form of commitment and character identity in the name of 'choice'. I'll just wait for variant human mod and call it a day.
It's doubly baffling that apparently one "hardcore-er" alteration was in fact made and Stealth is now a main action, finally, after being a cheesefest for so long. Wouldn't that take away the fun and the freedom, by that logic? Who needs rogues anyway?...
...though, now that you can multiclass without restrictions, you can have a paladin or barbarian 10(9) / rogue 2(3) or something regardless no matter your ability distribution, so I suppose that's a moot point.
I sincerely hope that a ~month-long window between announcing all of that and the release date is there to address at least some of the potential feedback that those alterations will have had received. Otherwise the EA stages and moments like "here come the gnomes, they are the smartest in the Realms, and so on" start to directly contradict the end product, so its evolutionary purpose indeed becomes questionable.
