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First of all, I believe the idea was to make sure not all drow are evil, not that all drow are not evil. Mind you, drow were never ALL evil, even before Drizzt – or his dad, for that title matter. Yet they were also a lot more varied in the lore, it’s just that it focused on Menzoberranzan, a particular city with a particular cultures. I’m a Forgotten Realms fan since Baldur’s Gate and when I got into D&D in the early 00s, one of the first books I read and got a physical copy of was the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. The drow were certainly majority evil, but they had different factions, cultures, even deities pulling them in different ways. Wizards chose to move away from that and downplay, ignore or even actively change that to make Drizzt that much more special. As it happened, that ended up not looking too good when they got a big wave of young new players with different expectations and values. Oh, and one other thing. WotC talked about how there would be more variety for Drow in the upcoming Eberron and Wildemount books. I am not familiar with Wildemount, but Eberron tried to be an unconventional setting with new roles for the “baddies” and monstrous species since its inception.

So, I’m actually going to take a slightly different tack than a lot of title here and say that this is probably an out-of-game issue, assuming that the other players in the campaign are also bothered by this. “Evil” isn’t actually the important word in the question. It’s pretty easy to imagine an evil campaign (the players are an up-and-coming drow house in Menzoberranzan), or an evil character in a good campaign (Spike teaming up with Angel and co. in Angel) that run smoothly and are fun for everyone involved. The important word you use is “derailing:” that is, this one player is using their character in such a way as to throw the game off for the rest of you. And here’s the thing about tabletop RPGs: those disruptive choices the player is making are just that, choices that they are making.