Dwarves aren't cool anymore

[Errorname]

Modern players appear to want to strip the lore of the creatures in D&D, and strip the power of their deities to influence them. Let's remove any sort of external pressure on them so we can just throw our hands up and say "they're basically just humans".

Is that surprising? People use D&D as an engine to tell their own stories, often rewriting the lore to suit their purposes. That's been a thing for as long as D&D's existed