Nobody plays the CORE human. The variant human is chosen quite often from what I've seen. Wokists seem to love tieflings, dragonborn, and dhampir.
I also prefer humans in general, but I also prefer Tieflings and Dragonborn* to dwarves and elves even though I’m as anti-Woke as you’ll find because I’m just sick to death of Cargo Cult Tolkein-alike where designers claim some sort of originality in doing what everyone has done before.
So, yes, give me a proud warrior race born from the blood of the first dragon god who once sought to raise an empire to his glory and the tainted ancestors of those who made a deal with the devil to avoid being conquered by the dragon gods’ brood and in so doing left infernal scars on all their descendants and shattered the world into a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the surviving humans, dragonborn and tieflings must fight to survive against infernally-twisted beasts, corrupted dragons and shattered things that were once men. Hell, bring on the Puti (winged halflings) as divine agents sent by the gods of light to help champions set the world aright.
At least it’s not version #584 of snooty magic forest people and gruff ale-guzzling mine people who have vague fantastic racism against each other while medieval-themed humans from the plains play mediator even as yet another evil overlord raises an army of orcs in the wastes to conquer the world. Oh, and there are Hobbits even though no one likes playing them because if you aren’t aping the forms Tolkein created even if you don’t understand why he created them then you don’t have a proper fantasy world [this is sarcasm for the tonally impaired].
I mean, even TSR knew the formula was repetitive… it’s why they started branching out with Dragonlance (Kender, Draconians, Tinker Gnomes, Minotaurs). It’s why they created Dark Sun and Planescape.
The Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece that will outlast us all. It doesn’t mean that cargo-culting it will make your derivative work a masterpiece.
So, yeah, I want distinct and meaningful races tied to setting lore… just not more Tolkein-alikes.
* and Dhampirs, but only in Vampire the Masquerade where it let’s you be adjacent to the themes without having to play an actual monster.