This discussion reminds me a lot of the Kingdom Come Deliverance controversy.
Like it or not, but the FR world is established enough to also have fixed demographics and it would be good if a game set in the FR follows the demographics of the place it is set in and doesn't throw it out the window for the sake of modern diversity.
Exactly. This was one of (the very many) criticisms levelled at Rings of Power. The makers of that could have just created their own world to do their political ideology rather than cash in on the Tolkien association and then trash it. Larian could just have easily done a DOS 3 rather than cash in on the BG association and then do what they have done.
