Ya, Tasha's rule just sound like min maxers trying to cheat. Going to cry cause my fav race doesn't have the best attribute, garbage.
I mean the old race attributes don't make sense in the first place. The idea gnomes are innately better wizards than humans is laughable.
There are single human wizards who could probably kill the whole gnome race by themselves.
Usually people who oppose Tasha's tend to like one of the old meta races...
Spiders Human ArchWizard Georg is an outlier and shouldn't be counted.
These a ton of human archeizards of that calibur or higher though.
Like 15 Netheril Archwizards, Elminster, Mystra, Azuth, Elminster Szass Tam,
Like wise there multiple gods of sneaky stabby guys that are humans, so it doesn't make a ton of sense elves are innately better sneaky stabby guys either.