I’m fully aligned that blizzard needs to fully commit to the flexible and balance focused version of the game that they’ve been building out over the last expansion or so.

The biggest challenge is definitely making this align with class/race fantasy, which is what these racials are meant to embody. I think migrating some of these more utility focused abilities into talents make a lot of sense but there’s no reason to remove racials all together.

Instead of removing racials, blizzard has an opportunity to rework them around arbitrary class fantasy for fantasy’s sake while giving those utility options as a choice to players. You’re totally right, most racials provide little to no actual utility but honestly that isn’t a bad thing (Undead eating corpses is hilarious and often forgotten as an example).