Yeah, and like I said, they started the process of making orcs (and Drow) officially playable a decade ago, this was just formalizing it. A lot of people wanted it, and the irony is that they added something like 80+ monsters to the manual. And nothing is stopping DMs from using orcs as NPCs.
I find a lot of the outrage to be false or misplaced because there's a lot more that people should be upset about and I think most of the outrage videos on YouTube are there for the clicks (which is most of YT these days).
There is so much more to be concerned about. Hasbro wanted to do away with physical books and turn everything into a subscription, and it sounded like they were heading towards only allowing their official VTT to be the only VTT to have any DnD content (shutting off Roll20.net, etc.), along with other changes. I like to play in person, but I also have some Roll20 stuff going on, and Hasbro's VTT was going to be resource heavy and more expensive.