Faolyn
(she/her)
How does removing stereotypes make a people bland?No idea why you bring real world references into it.
Kobolds being cowardly alone and relying on numbers was and still is one of their defining traits over all editions which had nothing to do with alignment.
If you remove every negative (and why stop just with the negative ones?) characteristic for everyone because at some point something similar was used as an insult in the real world you end up with bland and generic races as the "it could be a lie" can be used about every defining trait for everyone.
Like, if kobolds, which are tiny, squishy creatures that are preyed upon by almost everything else, run away when alone and rely on traps around their home... how is that cowardly? That seems smart to me.