Bright had me questioning everything about the setting to the point that I didn't care about the answers and really disliked the movie in the end.

BUT... I had those questions, and not everyone disliked it, so you have a decent point.

(So, we have elves and orcs, the elves run Hollywood and the orcs have gangs... but we still had WWII and slavery, so even other species actually existing we were still wildly racist on skin color? That deserved a lot more attention, but felt so lazy to me that I decided the justifications weren't likely to be interesting.)