Originally Posted by Kendaric
Fun fact regarding Tasha... Tasha's Cauldron racial ASI rules have the "variant human" (+ 1/+1, 1 feat at 1st level) as the default for humans. Which would have been an acceptable compromise (I still despise everything about Tasha's Cauldron though, the worst book for 5E in my not humble opinion).
Where does TCoE say that variant human is the "default" human, because I'm not seeing it? As far as I can tell, TCoE does nothing to change that in D&D, variant human is officially an optional rule (because Feats are an optional rule), as per the PHB.

That said, it makes no sense to me that Larian didn't follow PnP on this.