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Absurd can be subjective opinions. Yes. Guess where that comes from. The MM.

Aberrations are utterly alien beings. Abilities do they have drawn from the creatures' alien mind. Height of absurdity is trying to claim they are people. And a distraction. And irrelevant. To the issue at hand.

Look up beast type. 5e has that.

Good thing Wizards is already working on solutions.

Monk at high levels. Is there to shut down bosses. And get them to blow Legendary Resistances.

Playtests. Will you have them. Iterative processes. Will you have them.

Most important issue. Is working on baggage of racist tones. Of racist depictions. In heritage of D&D. By working with groups. Can be some solutions in this thread. Then work with groups. Discuss monsters from their cultures. Discuss if there are issues with racism in depictions of monsters. If...

Why classes only start at 3. For me.

Call them humanoids. Or people. Something that should be gotten rid of is calling them demihumans. Game heritage of that part is bad.

What I understand. Skrull are militant conquerors. But. Captain Marvel turned a group into sympathetic refugees. Could do similar to orcs. Propaganda paints them as evil. But groups are sympathetic. Means. Simply killing is too simplistic. More importance needs to be in talking.

Orcs who were not made from evil. Why cannot they get divine magic from other sources. Their communities could have multiple shrines to other gods. Or if they do not believe in gods. Their faith could open up divine magic. So. These are not puppets of evil gods.

Not throwing anything out. You still have evil orcs. Who follow traditional gods. What I am doing is adding more layers of lore. Better lore. Well crafted lore. Ideally. You can still have traditional monsters. As well as better PC options. Without any issue of colonialism.

If orc lore was well crafted to begin with. And unique in its approach. There would no links to colonialism. Only what you choose to deliberately link to. Evil orcs are also fine here. If they are dominated by their evil gods. Reason is you have a balanced race. Not wholly evil.

If points are divisive. They can be replied to with respect. There are obviously evil monsters. Humanoids are not monsters I do not think. So they can be many alignments. They should be given the choice of alignments. Some can be defined by their gods. While others do not have to be.

More needs to do with flaws with traits with ideals. In the game. Wizards needs to do more with those. Alignment is baggage in a lot of ways. Having multiple origins of races is good. No pinpoint origin. So different alignments can be for the same race. Then you can have obviously evil. And you...

Think good and evil and neutral and law and chaos are still necessary. But make them subjective. And a choice for humanoids. Choice is key. Free will do they have. While also have objective alignments. Makes for more interesting games.

Another helpful point. Have streamed games play with monstrous PCs. And show them not engaging in evil. Will destigmatize.

Eberron is another example of nuanced humanoids. Other than humans. Means that Wizards is thinking about. And creating solutions to these issues.

But would not the point be they are very rare. Can build entire stories and campaigns around this. Shows that temptation of evil is too great. Impactful that even angels can fall. But also shows the power of good. But personally if there are to many of these makes it less impactful.

If gnolls are depicted in Volo's as they are. Right to change them to fiends. Otherwise create alternate lore. Bestial they can remain. But less obviously evil. Importantly they can be decoupled from demon lords.