what she's saying is that half species can't have children because they're species and not races, but i guess she just got stuck on semantics. honestly i didn't really get her argument at all.
but yeah i completely agree, and one positive change they did make is completely reworking the lore for orcs so that their god isn't evil anymore and they aren't stupid brutes. as for species, someone else mentioned ancestries, and they also could have used lineages, and i think both would be less confusing than race
i'd love to hear more about your setting though, it sounds cool
thats really cool i love that