I'd take a +1 in every stat over a bunch of proficiencies that are completely useless for many builds/classes, especially fighters. Human fighters are almost literally pointless, you'd be better off with pretty much any other race. Same story for half-elf, if you're not using those proficiencies then they're straight up worse than regular elves. The extra attribute points that these races had were beneficial to ALL builds and were the only selling point for those races in the first place, without them they're effectively pointless if you're not taking advantage of the new proficiencies they get. I'm sure there's plenty of builds you could do that do take advantage of them, in which case good for you, but I don't plan on playing any of those and the stuff I wanted to do is now nerfed or obsolete. Plus, as stated, shield dwarfs might be straight up nerfed with no compensation. Just add an option to give up those proficiencies in exchange for the missing attribute points.
I believe the shield dwarf portion on the nerf is to come in line with the new system and the axe so to speak of the dwarf sub races, that will be all combined into one Master dwarven race. No more shield dwarves
