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The Volo's account is that the goblinoids used to have separate gods until Maglubiyet defeated all their gods and forced the various races to submit to his will. The Nilbog is the result of a goblin trickster god managing to survive the goblinoid Gotterdamerung. Maybe Maglubiyet forced a sort of evolution upon each race to better fill out his army, or maybe he chose the gods to defeat so that the end result would be a good mix of forces. I have a problem with the idea of bugbears as SF, as bugbears are depicted as lazy and that's about as far from a SF guy as you can get.
In the Birthright setting, Goblins are all one race and come in three different sizes, with the sizes corresponding to Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears. The diety for the Goblins on Cerilia, Kartathok is stated to be very similar to Maglubiyet, and so the mix of forces (and their numbers) does fit the idea of them being created as an ideal army.

They are one of the three major monstrous races in that setting, with the Orogs and the Gnolls the other two, and the most organized, with the Gnolls being a rabble, and the Orogs in between the Goblins and Gnolls in terms of organization.