Hussar
Legend
Sorry, but, they're a rounding error. And, we're not just talking about D&D Beyond stats. No one EVER played halflings very much. Good grief, even in 2e, halflings couldn't even get their own races of book. That's how unpopular they were thirty years ago.Or, you know, more pages could just be added to the PHB rather than cutting the halfling.
That way you can rejoice that xyz was finally added, those of us who like halflings/Hobbits remain happy, and the vast majority who don't give a( naughty word) about either continue to not give a (naughty word).
We all win D&D this way.
As for your claim "nobody plays 1/2lings"?
Your wrong. And you know it.
And you also know that those D&D Beyond stats don't represent the majority of players.
Yes, I have had halfling characters at my table. Sure. Last group had one. Fair enough. But, while @Faolyn talks about how his current group has three, I highly, highly suspect that that's an outlier. That if people were honest, and actually tracked back the last several years of gaming, polled the character made at your table, I suspect you might have 1 in 10 characters be halflings. At the outside. Probably less.
So, yes, if you want to be absolutely pedantic, which, in a thread like this, I should have realized that people would be, there are people who play halflings. However, the POINT that you were so deftly trying to ignore would be that so few people play them that replacing them with something that people would ACTUALLY play would be a fantastic idea.
Won't ever happen, but, one can dream.