Of course. Again the issue is that some downplay the influence of the gods or their influence. So the Orc and Drow alignment don't match the story and logic of the storyteller in those instances.
That's a good point, but the lack of consistency of private tables should not be a reason to hit the game in itself.
The problem like I said in many threads is halfway efforts. Taking something that might be taken serious and treating it nonchalantly, being lazy, or using shortcuts to make it easier or simpler. The seed of the problem was taking shortcuts of painting races in colors and cultural aspects without thinking much about it. But that's the point of this thread.
The thing is that Gygax created the orcs 40 years ago with just the "dark = evil" thing in mind. 40 years later, although no one (I think) accuses him of racism, when seen through the lens of todays views, it's sure that the drow color draws looks, but I don't think it's a question of not thinking about it, it's just something that was not in people's radar at the time.
The source of this discussion is again many fans labelling races as "Typically Evil" or "Always Evil" without thinking about how that affects the race, their lore, and the internal logic of those playing.
Indeed, but again, are WotC to blame for what fans do without much relfection ?
Typically or Always Evil Drow and Menzoberranzan doesn't make sense if you don't have Lolth messing with it half of every single day (divinity), the Drow being a powerful cult (society), or the Drow being mentally inhuman (genetics) or something similar..
However, with that in mind, in an epic setting, it makes sense. And with Erelhei-Cinlu, where the presence of Lolth is less intense (seeing that there is competition in some Drow houses), the fact that it's far less strong and allows for more non-evil rows is logical as well.
Depends. Old Warhammer was really bad and blatant.
But orcs were always green...
Modern Warhammer pushes the "logic" of Orks and Greenskins forward enough that getting upset about them would be a matter of heavy ignorance of the IP and very tilted perspective.
It might be what is saving them, or maybe just the lesser visibility.