I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to “I’m an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race”. And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don’t know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.
Meh, I really don’t give two shits about it either way. In my campaigns, I’ll just ignore this and have orcs and goblins default to evil unless my party decides to do something that requires them to be more nuanced. But most of the time I just need fantasy bugs that can be squashed without any moral dilemma attached.
That doesn’t mean that other groups can’t have their nuanced orcs that have tragic generational trauma attached. It’s just not something I need for my average dungeon crawl. That’s the beauty of the hobby. There’s no one right way to go about it.