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Give the swimming feature back to the people:

Dear Mojang Studios and Readers,

 

          There was a "feature" that was considered as a "bug," and was then eliminated during the 1.14 version of the bedrock edition of Minecraft. It was mentioned in the website titled article Minecraft - Buzzy Bees -1.14.0 (Bedrock): Players can no longer initiate swimming in shallow. But as the article said, it had been removed, and players like me enjoyed using this that "feature". 

It was really able to help players be able to do things creatively. It was use in case players caught by a flowing stream of water in cave systems with a supposedly dead end. Escaping from Player Killers! It could also be used to get into a river stream that led into a single cave system, and there's no other way out [except through the river flow stream]. Some players prefer to speedrun Minecraft without breaking any blocks. This helps. This feature contributed to both player creativity fun and survival mechanics.

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     Players used this feature within various minigames. When playing "Spleef," for example, players could slide around on the ice like a penguin. it made “Penguin Wars” an enjoyable memory, now lost to time. water slides and waterparks were also an enjoyable point in Minecraft history now lost to time. 

            In addition, if a player was caught by the the water flow streams of a mob grinder, or another form of trap, all they had to do was sprint forward, and they could swim them themselves out of the mob grinder contraption, into a one block gap that did or didn't contained water in it, to safety. [You mentioned these articles: (MCPE-101928).] This allowed players to create escape holes, similar to and in conjunction with various redstone productions in Minecraft.

           The previous comments are about a feature of Minecraft, that/while removed, at the time made sense from a commercial and community standpoint. It stands to reason that the more invested players are in the community, the more crazy interactions with the game that they (players) talk about, the more people with buy the game and addons, both. The article: One Block Swimming, Swimming can be activated in shallow water (MCPE-38751), and the article: Swim Problem (MCPE-47261) are focusing on the negative sides of things on this feature. However, it looked cool, made Minecraft more fun, and enough people knew about it that it became more of a feature rather than a problem. Please bring it back, one form or another.