We're discussing playing against racial type being possible without mechanics. The happy go lucky dwarf, etc., as another way than mechanics to play against type.
It's not playing against type in the scope of what the TCoE additions allow. On top of that there is nothing about the drow or any other race on a mechanical level that pigeonholes them to being good or evil. Alignment & relative morality in 5e is just a poorly adapted bolt on left a quarter step from the vestigial remnants of absolute morality.
Drow as a race/subrace are almost universally evil. Playing non-evil is playing against type. End of story. They don't have to be pigeonholed into being evil for that to be true.
Fixed that for you. There is also the critical two components about how there is nothing mechanical involved in a PC being one alignment or another beyond just picking that alignment and the fact that alignment is not within the scope of the changes TCoE includes to allow playing outside of a race's type in ways that are otherwise mechanically discouraged that are being discussed.
Don't fix my posts. If you want to refute something I said, do it in your response. What official setting has Drow as primarily non-evil? Eberron?
Yes, Eberron. And of course homebrewing settings is very popular, so I wouldn't be surprised if in practice playing in worlds where the Drow are not lame cartoon villains would be rather common.
Okay. I've never played Eberron so that was a guess.
The lore baselines of the FR & Greyhawk twins don't apply to every setting despite FR fansuggest otherwise & the various core books being too setting specific to admit it. The claim was so badly wrong that it didn't deserve more than an editor's note type correcyion. Here are a few examples...
So your proof of how the default core rules are wrong consists of Ravnica, which doesn't have drow. Their "dark elves" are not Drow. Ravenloft, which does have Drow, but you didn't link it. You linked non-drow elves instead. Look up the realm of Arak for where the real Drow live. People don't generally survive encountering the real Drow. And Eberron, which makes an exception to the core default that Drow are evil.
