I'd like to cash in on my neckbeard allotment and point out that humans are not native to the world of the Witcher and actually came over through portals. As such, it is essentially possible that the races from the humans' original world got mixed on the Witcher world. Now, the event that made the migration possible was roughly 1.500 years before the start of the series, so if anyone wants to put together a counterargument about genetic dilution and to what extent people would still have certain skin tones after 1.500 years of potential crossbreeding, have at it!
It's already been explained many times here, dissing some of The Witcher's casting choices isn't about "black people in muh feodalism", it's about hiring actors not because they're good, fit the role or bring production value, but because they're black. Sapkowski didn't care about that in his books, CDProjekt didn't care about that in their games either. Triss actress doesn't seem to know where she is, Fringilla can't act, Elfboy is comical at best and the dryads look like they're coming straight from Wakanda.
On the other hand, most of these characters have shitty writing and telenovela tier dialogues. You can be a top tier actor, there's just so much you can do when the writers decide to give you lame lines and stupid story development. Yennefer actress did a decent job, considering the trainwreck writing. Her character has a somewhat correct storyline until she fucked off from Hogwarts Magician Academy and decided she wants children after all, cramming herself into a stupid dragon storyline, making her do swordfights and conveniently not using her magic when the plot doesn't call for it. Yeah, another Woman going after dragons, heh.
I don't really care about actor's skin color when I'm watching anything, I'm just getting my immersion ruined when some actor play so bad you can't see his character anymore just the actor doing a mediocre job. And that's what it is here.
The showrunner got her first writer gig on The West Wing, and some directors worked on
The Sopranos or
Utopia. They definitely know the difference between good and bad acting. They're not stupid, they're just making a point doing diversity casting for the sake of it and not caring about the final product overall quality. It's not an oversight, it's a cyclone of bad decisions and amateur level production. The material was rich and elaborated, the videogames were very good and Witcher 3 is a top notch gaming milestone, Cavill was on board, fandom was huge, Netflix was spouting millions out of its ass, why did they have to ruin it with terrible decisions?
