The real reason that teiflings become THE playable race du jour is simple, but @DaddyWarpig is being way to polite about it. As a player class it didn't fully skyrocket for the hipster crowd of rainbow players until a certain MMORPG came out after D&D 3.5:
https://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1788670942937584016
In fact I'm surprised that most don't make the connection that the revival of D&D under 5th edition didn't suffer from the pink sliminess of WoW's racial takes and now the racial asymmetry of old D&D was thrown in the bin for Blizzard balance and "storytelling"
You get a bunch of the hipster kids flooding in to 5E with their probably misguided view on Tieflings and thinking they were like the Dranei, it's just a gray goopy fiend person with massive handlebars and not an expert race with specific penalties when you played them.
It's why the stupid Orc question by that crowd keeps being thrown up every few months about how Orcs are racist, because they were so used to playing them as alien bland noble savages in WoW it became the only way to view a beastman race. In every tabletop game.
See if you're playing a beastman or demi human, the whole damn point is your trading off long term benefits that you'd get as a human for other stat strengths, and in AD&D that meant trading off experience gains and even later levels for the game.
But all those WoWer's Pink slimed these unique asymmetrical gameplay values for costume larping. And well that's how you get a bajillion Teiflings all over the damn table instead of their correct rarity and difficulty to play.
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