Originally Posted by Alodar
Originally Posted by Ixal
And this thread shows why the floating ASI are a mistake. They remove flavour from a race and the minmaxer will still only play certain combinations because now the racial abilities determine what race is best for a class.
Much was lost and nothing was gained.

Oh the irony.

5e(2014) had only very few viable races for min/maxers for each class.
Barbarian was either a Half-Orc or a Shield Dwarf.

5e(2024) allows you to choose any race without compromising your stats and Min/Maxers will choose the race whose features compliments their preferred play-style.

As for the OP's question Half-Orc or Dragonborn would likely be my choices for the Barbarian mostly because they would make cool looking Barbarians.

Thank you for proving my point.
5e(2014) had only very few optimal minmaxed races for each class. Most players didn't care because they played interesting characters and not spreadsheets

5e(2024) allows minmaxers to optimise more, not having to account for ability score allowing them to focus on special abilities, because suits having decided that catering to less demanding minmaxers is more profitable.