All of that basically exists in eberron though. Maybe not the lycanthropes because of some setting specific lore, but I feel like... Not only has this already been done but it's been done by d&d decades ago.
I just find it kind of weird how everyone's so gung-ho about Mazin despite having a spotty record but in the threads about new WotC hires people are really picking apart their entire creative output, the good and the bad. It's weird to me we're extending more benefit of the doubt to a creator in...
I actually don't have a problem with TLoU and think it's a good show and well regarded as a good video game adaptation; but I want to emphasize that while he's had some recent successes the dude has a laundry list of clunkers to his name too.
They were retconned into being draconians and then retconned back out into separate creatures.
The 2014 PHB says the following:
Then SotDQ, pubbed in 2022, says the following:
2024 rules do not mention a connection between dragonborn and draconians, so the SotDQ status-quo is canon, but it's...
Speaking of, I always wished that there was a "frivolous" statblock to go with the "dire" statblock. Like you could have a "frivolous t-rex" which is reduced CR and is actually just a chicken. Or a frivolous wolf which is a chihuaha.
I guess a we already have "Frivolous giant space hamsters"...
Here's a very specific 3e one: creatures other than wolves being called "dire". Every so often I'll catch reference to a "dire crow" or "dire capybara".