I can see ed perhaps finding cormyr as his sort of ideal fantasy setting place to live, thus to many others it by nature is not.
I have considered if a setting many of nothing but different disparate people ideal fantasy settings place to live would desolve into a fairly dynamic and interesting...
honestly it is more they suck at making monk a decent class but I digress.
I liked the more accepting nature of variety.
dislike the lack of decent settings details as a setting is just picking a premade option so you can worry about running the game
given tolkain and black sabbath are from the midlands them being seen as less than human feels odd, then again the nation it racked with such old faultlines based on more or less nothing.