Drow: An Alternate Take

I was mulling over the notion of an alternate "army list" structure for D&D - as I've mentioned before, way back in the day Alignment was essentially that structure (before it morphed into the cause of a million arguments), but actually Good vs Evil makes for a bad thematic conflict (since there's an obvious 'right' side). That being the case, I was pondering the major players in such a structure and how they'd fit together.

I started with the Elves and Dwarves, who are both considered 'good' races but which are nonetheless in opposition: Elves are associated with nature while Dwarves are associated with industry. And the 'obvious' notion would be that both these races would be considered allied with humans.

But...

What if it were Drow, not Elves, who were allied with humans?

Indeed, what if the ancient feud between Elves and Drow wasn't the classic "good vs evil" yawnfest, but instead something else?

Specifically, what if Elves (including Drow) were the first practitioners of Arcane magic, and it was the Drow who gifted the secrets of it to the first human wizards (in the manner of Prometheus and fire)? This caused a major schism in the elven race, leading to the drow being driven out and underground. (And Lolth, for her part, was cursed by Corellon with her current form, and so on and so forth.)

The upshot of this would be that elves then are not the exemplars of good that D&D seems relentlessly determined to portray them as, which can only be a good thing in my opinion. It also means that drow are probably not the exemplars of evil that they've similarly been typecast as - they're the losers in an ancient war that was actually not simply good vs evil.

It does have the advantage that drow can then retain most, if not all, of their current design - they remain subterranean elves, they can remain associated with spiders and the like (since, although many people have phobias, spiders aren't actually forces of evil), and so on.

It does mean that Lolth needs a new portfolio, and it does mean that both elven and drow society need overhauled from their previous depictions, but that's probably no bad thing.

(It isn't even necessarily the case that humans being allied with drow means that they must be opposed to elves, due to the way the web should be constructed. It's possible for one force to be allied with two others that are themselves opposed.)

All that said, I suspect this would require a whole new setting to be grafted into D&D, and I'm not inclined to change my minds about not using drow in my own campaigns, so...