Drow are elves that got twisted specifically by Lloth into hypercompetitiveness among other things.

It's cringe but it's strangely logical cringe.

There's actually a lot of metaphysical logic behind the reason there's like a thousand kinds of elf and they're all separate races with notable physical differences unlike other groups that mostly settle with "these halflings are taller"

Tl;Dr elves were originally eladrin, the champion race of good/chaotic. Their chaotic nature means that their children adopt the traits of their environment but as they're a deliberate Tolkien reference having left their native plane is functionally their original sin, like the elves leaving Valinor in LotR. (Unless I'm misremembering the specifics, but the vibe is still right)

The entirety of the drow is inspired by old femdom porn mixed with a violent ultra competitive society like the worst of Rome, the middle ages, and cyberpunk corpratism combined. They were considered an evil race for the entire life of that concept.