Because ogres and elves have different traits, different cultures, and different ways of going about things. Even if they're all part of a society, they're likely going to have different outlooks and histories and cultural rituals.
Well, that's disturbing.
No, because that adds to the amount of writing that needs to be done (and paid for) and the potential page count of the book (which also needs to be paid for).
And I find it much easier to add by not having a "type" to begin with.
For that historical overview and for rules that have hopefully been gone over by more people than just your own gaming group.
Sure, bonus to in is better for wizard than natural armour, no doubt about it. But we're talking about world where that is not an option (or it is not tied to race) so only differentiation are the traits. And some of them absolutely will make certain races better for certain classes. Under Tasha's mountain dwarves are super good for wizards and sorcerers compared to most other options under the same system.
Indeed, we never needed Tasha's optional rule, and yet here we are.
People enjoy fictional violence pretty much everywhere from comic books to Hollywood movies.
That you say that you find killing one particular fictional race exceptionally satisfying definitely sounds disturbing. And that this particular race is a noted target of problematic depictions certainly doesn't make this seem any better.
The advantage dwarves have as casters under Tasha’s is really not significant compared to other racial features. Is it “better” for a wizard to have medium armor, or to be able to change their appearance at will? It depends on what you want to do with your Wizard. This is not the case when comparing ability score increases. Increasing Intelligence will always be better for a wizard than increasing any other ability. Racial traits come at the opportunity cost of other racial traits, which have similarly niche applications. Ability score increases come at the opportunity cost of increasing other abilities, and since every class has one ability that is objectively more important for them than any other (well, ok, fighters can choose which of two abilities they want to be more important), an increase to that ability instead of an increase to another ability makes a character an inherently better specimen of their class in a way that having one racial trait as opposed to another doesn’t.
I simply do not agree that this is the case. All traits are not equally good for all classes. Perhaps the disparity in power is smaller that way, but at most we have a difference of degree, not of kind. And if the complaint is that is that favouring certain classes is inherently problematic, then I don't think that should matter.
I just used orca as an example. Could have been goblins, gnolls, kobolds, whatever... Just something that isn't a mindless construct or animated pile of bones or boring human highwaymen. I thought that was clear from the context.
