Great multiplayer, but....

It's absolutely a pain to connect to other people in java edition. If you don't want to pay, you first need to port forward which can take a long time, you then need to copy your portforwarded address, then you need to start a server, send the people who want to connect the portforwarded address, have everyone connect to the server and THEN you can play together. Why can't you just host a multiplayer session then give your friends a code to join? I think that would be a great feature, and it would make multiplayer less of a pain to play.