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Yeah that's not the case for all tieflings, and perhaps not even the majority of them.

I thought you said that's not what a tiefling is.

Half elves and half-elves "scrumping", ie like most half-elves in Eberron?

Tieflings have never been "Half-fiend", of course not (where did I argue that?). Up until relatively recently, however, they were almost always "somewhere in my ancestry was a fiend" which, yes, makes them a hybrid race. You know not all half-elves had a human and elf parent, right?

Hack or not, the Clone Wars suddenly deciding that a) human/twi'lek hybrids were a thing and b) it results in a person with different coloured hair was silly as hell.

If floating ASI was the issue, then everyone would be playing Mountain Dwarfs (+2/+2).

Aren't you thrilled and excited about the possibility of playing a child with green hair.

You can convince yourself of whatever you want, but there is not a huge player base clamouring for human/dwarf or gnome/halfling etc options. A handful, maybe. Even if the rules changed as you want I can assure the hybrids people played would still overwhelmingly be half-elves. The others don't...

You might not see a difference. Ok. But based on the evidence, most players disagreee.

People, for the most part, were on board with that changes. And it was adding options, not taking wizards or dwarfs away. There's a big difference. Based on surveys there is not a base of players wanting them to take away half-elf as a separate race.

"Legacy" is a huge reason in of itself. This is a 50 year old game with many sacred cows. People enjoy things for a reason. Tampering with them should not be done on a whim.

I can't imagine a situation that makes sense where party members don't have a common language (especially if they've been travelling together for a while), but having party members unable to communicate with individual NPCs can actually be a useful to let other PCs use their social skills...

I've read half a dozen of them back-to-back, so I'm not sure what this is about.

Languages are inherently setting detail. If we're not going to have any default assumptions on setting, then remove languages from the core books race mechanics. Instead give advice on how to deal with languages as part of building your setting.

Most campaigns don't tend to travel very far - look at the official campaigns, mostly all set on the Sword Coast. Having Chult speak an unintelligible language for the most part might have helped differentiate the people there from Sword Coast-ites. All of this is easily ignorable for people...

Then don't mention languages at all.

What common is trying to emulate is Lingua Franca, the Mediterranean trade tongue. But it completely misunderstands it by making villagers everywhere speak the damn thing. (I suppose its also going for a weak copy of Westron as well, but Tolkien didn't make everyone in Middle Earth speak it! It...

These are all things I consider in my homebrew campaign settings, and one of the reasons I just can't accept standard D&Disms like "Common".