Nobody is paying modders. I'm paying 100$ for Larian's game. Wish this was an option. It weakens the differences between races. It means the strongest halfling will be as strong as the strongest half orc. That seems weird. Lol or the healthiest half elf will be as healthy as the healthiest dwarf. Please make this maje sense. Dwarves, elves, and half orcs should not be treated as different style of humans. It is what it us. Lack of options is kewl.
But... that's the way it has been for the lifespan of 5e? That's a terrible argument. 18 STR for a Halfling is the same as 18 STR for a Half-Orc. The strongest halfling IS as strong as the strongest half-orc. That's the way it works. If you want to lean on that might as well go back to the ridiculous years of women having different stats from men. Honestly, I like this change and am glad it's the one going live.
18 strength is 18 strength, but the path to 18 was longer for a halfling than for a halforc, and the halforc would have picked up a feat by the time the halfling caught up. So it's still not entirely equal, there's still an adventage, even though the system had become politically correct and allowed the tiny little creature to be "just as strong" as the towering muscle-bound half-orc.
But what we have now is bizarro world where stick people are better bruiser and brawlers than the muscle-head races, because stick people races have stuff that might have synergy with martial classes and the muscle-head races generally do not. This, to me, breaks any logic and coherence. And not a single one of the people who think this is awesome can even begin to explain why any of this makes any kind of sense ingame.
