My view varies depending on the type of character and the surrounding context. Most of the time I don't think it should matter what race the actor is for the role and I feel like we should try to move towards colour blindness rather than colour fetishisation, but alas our social betters seem to want the opposite. One of the exceptions for me would be historical characters in docudrama productions - especially culturally significant ones - and that's partly why I think there was a bigger backlash to Cleopatra or Anne Boleyn(!) being black. Another part is I think there's an element of racial animus from the creators of these types of productions, which is subconsciously picked up on by some of the public, which then produces a backlash, which is in some ways actually desired by the creators because they feel it justifies their original motives.
The bigger issue is I feel like the entertainment industry and Hollywood goes about its quota-based diversity efforts (read: pandering) the wrong way. Take something like Rings of Power. I'm not a huge LotR guy, but from what I gather, in Tolkien's lore the different groups of people are very homogeneous (makes sense for a fantasy setting with limited means of transportation), but there are vast regions populated by non-white races. Why not write the show so that one of the main storyline strands takes place in one or more of these regions, and/or focusing on characters from those other races? Same with Wheel of Time - the little isolated backwater village at the start is so diverse that it made me chuckle. They obviously casted via diversity checklist but without any thought or explanation as to how that would work within the world that had been created by someone much more talented than themselves. It's so low effort and, because of that, it breaks immersion.
I'm much more familiar with Asimov's Foundation, because the original novel series is a favourite of mine. There's a lot of race (and gender) swapping for the show, but it's generally done better than the previous two examples and is worked into the series' universe rather than feeling completely divorced from it. Just a shame the 'adaptation' as a whole is an abomination.
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Edit - Ka-Pi's post reminded me of Bullet Train. Man I was so annoyed by how few Japanese people there were in that film. I know there's a (very lazy) brief explanation given as to all of the tickets being bought up by whatever his name is, but come on...
