Cadaver747: I Googled and found the following article on The Gamer website:
"Crawford never said D&D is removing the concept of Half-races because, as it turns out, it isn’t. As Den of Geek points out in its coverage of the controversy, what Bounding Into Comics (and others, which we’ll come back to) reported as news isn’t actually news at all. We’ve known that Half-Orcs and Half-Elves are getting removed as character creation options since last year, but that doesn’t mean mixed race characters are going away. In fact, it’s the exact opposite.
Soon,
players will be able to create characters with parents of any two races, no longer bound by being Half-Human.
You can be Half-Orc and Half-Elf if you want, or Half-Dragonborn and Half-Hobgoblin. Heck, you could even be Half-Centaur and Half-Gnome. I don’t know how that works, but if there’s a will, there’s a way."
https://www.thegamer.com/gaming-media-has-lied-to-you-about-the-removal-of-half-races-in-dungeons-and-dragons/
So, I guess everything is not that bad, right?
I agree, it's not that bad, it's worse.