They are redundant now, under the 2024 design paradigm. Which is the point. With species playing a far lesser role in character design, they aren't bringing anything unique that their parent species don't bring or bring something similar to.
agreed, but unfortunately we are not getting that from WotC
Its not redundant.
Then you won’t have any problem adding them into you game, will you?
Perhaps. Certainly if you're WotC, where maximizing profit is their primary priority. But when the people who run the company also help make the game, there is a stronger tendency to prioritize making the best game you can creatively. Case in point: virtually every other TTRPG company.
Which is why we need to stop looking to WotC to make the game we want.
So you could redesign both with new names, new mechanical features, and new flavor. What exactly are you saving? Let's say I make a feyblood that's flavor is that you are influenced by the feywild (half-fey, lived in the feywild, or were exposed to fey magic) who gets darkvision, fey ancestry, and some fey magic, have I really created a revised half-elf or just made a new race to fill that niche?
I think Gilbert and Sullivan have the best take: Strephon is fairie down to the waist, but has mortal legs. This, enables him, for example, to shrink his top half to fit through keyholes.
no, same name, same flavour, just more of a unique package of mechanics rather than 'discount elf' or 'refluffed human', making a generic 'feyblood' entirely misses the point of why people want halfelves (and halforcs), because people want the narrative, and ideally the mechanics to go with that narrative, of those who are caught between, being both yet neither, and H-elves and H-orcs have long established histories and lore and relationships, what they represent and are is immediately identifiable which a 'generic feyblood' would lack that iconic narrative identifying footprint.
