Except it doesn’t really avoid the tropes, IMO, because many of those tropes are universal. I grabbed the Chronicles way back when, and always am checking it out to see what species (probably races in the book) I could pull to make things “different” in my fantasy worlds, and there really isn’t anything compelling. Humans with different skin colors and still pulled from real world cultures. Alien type humanoids with pointy ears and butterfly wings, which look like elves, and sound like elves, but are named something else. Some terms and species names that have the potential to be problematic today.
I’ll be curious what they do with it, as I liked some of the art work and some of the concepts (the flying manta artwork, and the black necromancer dudes - the names escape me), but the “races” they had, at least in Chronicles were meh and repetitive. Nothing I couldn’t get from changing a skin color and picking a new name for something already in DnD.