Firstly, my inner prescriptivist salutes yours. Things are becoming more clear now. I too, mistook it for 'discriminatory', out of habit, really.
So, by my understanding of this, the problem isn't so much the inclusion of say, origin tags, but the term subrace. And, by that token - you wouldn't have an issue if that was labeled, say; 'origin'?
I ask, because, in essence - that's the thing we're more or less shooting at here.
And that's actually largely what it is now for the other races, considering that how a character looks is entirely separated from the subrace already.
Now, don;t get me wrong here, certainly some of these origins have varying appearances, but that's no different now. People from exotic locales will have exotic appearances. Again, though, appearance such as skin tone and sex are entirely separated in BG3.
