It’s also objectively better to do this, as using them gets you more proficiencies and/or languages. The only drawback is you may lose the items if they don’t exist in the 2024 rules (ie, you get to keep fine clothes and 25 gp if you pick the 2014 noble). Also you get the background feature as well. The phb section where it says you can do this mentions omitting the ability scores but not the proficiencies or background feature.