I was playing survival when I realized I was trying to play like creative

I was playing my survival world like a creative world. I was trying to build things large structures or various structures scattered throughout the world. I realized that I was trying to play like creative world but I was more distracted by enemy mobs. I thought survival should have more. Survival focused experience because I see gamers playing Mr. Builder in their hard-core worlds. I thought there needs to be more reason to explore distant coordinates 100,000 blocks out. While I thought about this, I saw everyone using Elytra to get that far and I thought of a mob variant that could be fought in the air during a long trip like a phantom or elder Phantom that could be a fight. What did I think? I thought survival needs more survival equalities to keep the enthusiasm for post ender dragon gameplay alive.