That was not really Larians doing. D&D itself tries its best to suck all identity out of other races and make them pretty much interchangeable, both to not possibly offend anyone in any way and also to make all races equally good at everything so that no one complains that they "can" only play X with race Y....
Um.
No.
That was Larians doing, not WotC.
Larian did not implement the races much as they are defined in the PHB.
