Sometimes it blows my mind how serious we fans can take stuff.
Let's take a step back. Think real life culture. In the 1950s, a woman would never be caught dead in pants. All women were to wear skirts to their ankles and have longer hair. Now, most women DONT wear long skirts and many DONT like long hair.
Who's to say all Drow women everywhere throughout all time must look a certain way?
Established game lore uses clear stereotypes. Stereotypes are useful for a consistent imaginary world.
Real world is chaotic and ever changing. If you try to overlap real world and game world all the time all you are left with will be confusion because everything becomes mutable at any given time.
There are ways to make changes in lore but it requires more effort than " hey I make changes now because real life is changeable" to stay consistent.
