jmartkdr2
Hero
People have been writing in new kinds of elf for a lot more than a few years, but the basic tropes remain the same. Even if elven barbarians become common (like in Elfquest), they're still elven.Give it a few years.
The base game works well. Races have a "type" that suggests classes they lean toward thematically. If a player chooses instead to play "off-type" by playing a different class they still have a good character, one which will have different strengths than if they were a standard race of that class.
With the Tasha's rules this is largely lost. Some races even suggest classes which are opposed to what their 'type' was as what race is 'optimal' for each class has now changed. Tasha's hasn't eliminated racial optimization per class just changed which ones are optimal.
Do you really think one game adding more rules options is going to upend the entirety of fantasy fiction around the world in a few years? By doing the same thing they've been doing for almost 50?