the updates after 1.8.9 feel really unfocused and mostly flash but not much depth to them.
New Minecraft just straight up panders to casuals and doesn't do anything to offer to us who grew up with the game and got really good any challenge to seek out.
I still suppose it's a nice, chill, and fun game but it feels like they are just making that experience more and more tedious by creating intrusive problems with annoying solutions with each update.