There is nothing humans get that literally every other race can do better when humans historically were the only race in all of Toril that could handle every class because humans were the most diverse and flexible race of them all. [...]
Compared to what other races get humans, which already were at the bottom of the races in terms of what they get may as well not exist because their greatest strength (their diversity of skills and abilities) is now shared by all other races.
These changes overall just are disappointing.
Annoying that they opted for the +2/+1 optional rule based on Tasha and then not think about the balance consequences of that decision. It's also very odd that they did this last-minute change when racial ASI was in the EA for well over three years.
Now human are objectively the worst race followed by half-elf (as their previous bonus of choosing two +1 scores have been removed). Why go half-elf when you can just go elf now?
I can't help but feel the have deliberately done this to incentivize other races after they made that statement in 2020 about how the majority goes for a white male human. Guess I'm going to wait until variant mod comes out before I buy the game.
Larian is obviously trying to dissuade people from playing Humans. They are so objectively weaker than all other races, there's no way this is accidental.
Is Larian trying to dissuade people from playing Human? Variant Human would be super popular - because that extra feat, skill and the +1 +1 in two abilities. Are they worried about the statistics from that first community update being the same with players overwhelmingly playing milquetoast white dudes?
[...] but if that is someone's journey let them have it.
Having read through this thread I begin to wonder what's going on inside the dev team? Humans are the most popular race in D&D among players. It seems like some people at Larian don't like that and try to forcefully discourage their player base from playing humans,
instead of respecting the preferences of their customers.
