I always had felt it was an offensive thing to call them, given how smart they come across when we get to know them. But that was always the story - that they were dismissed as beasts by people.

It did start to get odd when dwarfs were beasts but I'm alright with that, because they're lalafells and it was fun that they were categorized as being lesser.

I think it made sense to change it to tribal since not all of them are beast-like, but society fits better. I just missed the part where they announced changing it to society, because it seemed a much more subtle change than when they announced them being tribal quests.