Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
You're going to have vocal minorities who complain about everything. I have no issue with the floating racial ability scores included in Tasha's, even though I will never use them or have them in my game. Why? Because like alignment, it's easily ignored and I'm the kind of person who is going to try and shout someone else's fun down.Hmm see from my perspective, wotc decided to not add alignment to stat blocks in candlekeep, float racial ability scores in tasha's, and include one (1) sidebar in ravenloft suggesting people be mindful of stereotypes, and we see a very vocal reaction from some of the fanbase. Some people going so far to claim that wotc no longer wants them as fans (i.e. customers), which seems crazy to me.
I only bought Candlekeep, because it has relatively few stat blocks for me to have to figure out. If WotC puts out a monster book without alignment, I won't buy it. As I said earlier in the thread, I use alignment a lot as a quick and easy way to run NPCs that aren't that important to the story. An encounter with two ogres is probably going to end without any talking. However, sometimes a player gets an idea and wants to talk to a monster for some reason and alignment is invaluable to me as a stepping stone for how to play that monster. I have no interest in having to memorize all the lore for a monster in order to play them for a few seconds, IF a player decides to talk to it. It's too much work, and I play this game for fun.