hey but also what if i fixed gnolls to be more like were-hyenas

like i love the idea of gnolls but the thing that i hate most in d&d is that the fallback for nearly every Bad Guy Species is “yeah they’re sentient creatures but they’re just Too Dumb to be anything but evil”. like gnolls are very specifically written as this tidal wave of evil driven by hunger to destroy but it’s mostly because they’re apparently Too Savage to develop agriculture? like seriously d&d is it literally just the main four races that grow their own food and everyone else is fed by their scraps. or the bad guys literally can only eat raw flesh and haven’t yet learnt the magic of carbs. That’s Bad Worldbuilding.