Originally Posted by Slapstick
At this point just make humans the "variant" human with a free feat, instead of doing silly things that doesn't jive with a ton of classes.

This is the solution. It's a pretty easy fix and there's no reason they shouldn't implement it. Unless Larian has some mission to disincentivize people from playing humans. But like it or not, people want to play humans, and it's the number one race picked by beginner DnD players.

Personally, I pick my race based on my class and when I play a Wizard, I prefer to play a human PC. Now I feel like I should pick a different race because by choosing human I will be building a weaker PC. This shouldn't be the case and ironically has the opposite effect of what they're trying to accomplish with the ASI changes.

I'm not a huge fan of the ASI change but I can accept it so long as they balance things out now and fix the issue humans and half-elves now become less appealing. Not sure what you could do with half-elves but humans should definitely get a feat at level 1! Easy fix and I promise it's one everyone would be happy with.