Minecraft updates add many new features, but I would like to address the amount of those features that were suggested by the community. On the official change log I noted 7 bullet points for community suggestions, only one more than the 6 bullet points for cats.
It's great that there's a section of the features that are all community suggestions, but the features suggested by the community, are a small part of the update overall.
Most of the features go towards the main theme of the update, villagers and pillagers. I believe that most of the time should be used towards implementing community suggestions, especially small quality of life improvements that should be implemented immediately.
There should still be update themes but they would focus on micro updates, for example, the tiaga update was put in with the village and pillage update, and was very small. It added foxes, bushes and campfires, if you had maybe one or two extra features and mechanics, that would be an excellent update, not for a six month Java update, but for bedrock's 1 month updates.
This way Mojang would update areas of the game like caves (#1.15 cave update), by implementing small but significant changes. Alongside those there would be the bulk of the update, mostly community suggested ideas.
This would give the community a more influential position on the development of Minecraft, and help the game by growing it's community and having the game moulded in the players' vision.
Many popular ideas from the community should not be implemented regardless, of course, it would be disastrous if you abandoned your rules of development and added all the most suggested stuff like guns, but people spend lots of time posting ideas for a better Minecraft, much more deserve to be implemented, and much sooner.
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