A lot of people often confuse hatred of Vulpera with hatred of their fanbase. The Vulpera and Sethrak fanbase(Closely in league with each other) has a long history of displaying some very cult like tendancies and the main advocators have the race have been notoriously hostile to fans of mechagnomes and gilgoblins. The two big Sethrak and Vulpera discords have actively tried to silience, discredit and attack fans of these races and even bully them off the forums. I have done some research and found that the term diaper gnome was actually coined by a major sethrak supporter. This is a hate meme that has been repeated over and over and over. If thats not toxic I don’t know what is.
Secondly. It feels like vulpera was added because of a very vocal group and are the only allied race that isn’t somehow related to their parent race. For many goblin fans it feels like we were cheated out of a proper AR especially when gilgoblins had so much good setup to be an allied race. People wouldn’t have had so much an issue with mechagnomes if they were paired with gilgoblins.
I don’t think people would’ve had nearly as much of a problem with vulpera if it didn’t feel like they were added solely because their fanbase yelled the loudest on the forums/social media, or if those “waiting in the reserves” races mentioned before got to be playable before them. As it is, vulpera feel like usurpers ( uwu surpers?) who took the place of more valuable races because they’re cute.
This wholeheartedly.