Better alternative than stat-less races

[Captain Cap]

I know, and yet

• You previously lauded the fact that golaiths get an ability that increases their carrying capacity.
• You're against elves having the get +2 DEX - even if pointed out that this would have different game mechanical effects then the current rules.

That does not make sense to me. Carrying capacity is ALSO a number you know. Why do think one is bad and the other isn't?

Maybe because the latter makes the character unequivocally better at insert class than others, via a gap than can always be closed with enough training (completely invalidating the idea of the elves in the top curve being more dexterous than other races), assuming another race spends an extra ASI that the elf can instead invest in anything else, turning that supposedly thematic Dex gap into something else entirely with no relation to the races in question.