I definitely disagree with you on practicall all points, hehe! Here's my reasoning:
I don't think every ancestry need active combat abilities, and it makes even less sense for humans to have that. After all, humans are inherently nonmagical, and any nonmagical skill would have to be a learned thing that most, if not all, ancestries would be equally probable to have learned, and is more fit to put as parts of classes anyway.
On top of that, there are also some players that prefer having less options to choose from during combat encounters. Passive and non-combat features are great for those. And players that would like to not focus on active combat features from an ancestry, because that can quickly turn into no ancestry fitting the player's idea for their character. Like playing a classic knight type character, a swordsman that has honed their skill with the blade. "Oh, and for some reason I can also shoot lightning from my eyes..." A bit of hyperbole there, but I think you get my point. ;)
As for the narrative of it, it makes perfect sense to me: Most ancestries are directly connected to magic, like electrical appliances constantly connected to live wires of electricity. To them, electricity is always there and thus not something they'd actually notice. Humans, on the other hand, aren't. Cables of electricity are unnatural and strange to them, and because of that they stick out like a sore thumb to humans whenever they're near one. And if they touch one it's like electricity going through a semiconductor: It's gonna go through, just not at full strength. Humans aren't inherently magical, yet they're also not antimagical. They have the potential for magic, and thus can be affected. Just not at full effect.
Or a different simile: Think of it as humans experiencing the world as a fish in water, while everyone else are animals on land. The fish is definitely going to notice if there's suddenly a big bubble of air around. And if there's also some poisonous gas inside that bubble, it's gonna have a hard time affecting the fish. Meanwhile, all the animals on land are constantly breathing the air every second of every day of their life, so they don't really notice it. And if there's poisonous gas in the air near one of those animals, it's highly likely to reach the animal and poison it.
So the fact that humans are inherently nonmagical is the exact reason they absolutely both notice its presence and resist it better than those that are inherently magic themselves. :)
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I definitely disagree with you on practicall all points, hehe! Here's my reasoning: I don't think every ancestry need active combat abilities, and it makes even less sense for humans to have that. After all, humans are inherently nonmagical, and any nonmagical skill would have to be a learned thing that most, if not all, ancestries would be equally probable to have learned, and is more fit to put as parts of classes anyway. On top of that, there are also some players that prefer having less options to choose from during combat encounters. Passive and non-combat features are great for those. And players that would like to not focus on active combat features from an ancestry, because that can quickly turn into no ancestry fitting the player's idea for their character. Like playing a classic knight type character, a swordsman that has honed their skill with the blade. "Oh, and for some reason I can also shoot lightning from my eyes..." A bit of hyperbole there, but I think you get my point. ;) As for the narrative of it, it makes perfect sense to me: Most ancestries are directly connected to magic, like electrical appliances constantly connected to live wires of electricity. To them, electricity is always there and thus not something they'd actually notice. Humans, on the other hand, aren't. Cables of electricity are unnatural and strange to them, and because of that they stick out like a sore thumb to humans whenever they're near one. And if they touch one it's like electricity going through a semiconductor: It's gonna go through, just not at full strength. Humans aren't inherently magical, yet they're also not antimagical. They have the potential for magic, and thus can be affected. Just not at full effect. Or a different simile: Think of it as humans experiencing the world as a fish in water, while everyone else are animals on land. The fish is definitely going to notice if there's suddenly a big bubble of air around. And if there's also some poisonous gas inside that bubble, it's gonna have a hard time affecting the fish. Meanwhile, all the animals on land are constantly breathing the air every second of every day of their life, so they don't really notice it. And if there's poisonous gas in the air near one of those animals, it's highly likely to reach the animal and poison it. So the fact that humans are inherently nonmagical is the exact reason they absolutely both notice its presence and resist it better than those that are inherently magic themselves. :)