Petition to Revert Ender Pearl Change MC-308765

Bug fix MC-308765 negatively impacts PvP communities and should be reverted. The way pearls worked before (preserving momentum on impact) allowed for many useful and creative techniques, giving us a play style involving more freedom of movement while pearling. However, due to the bug fix, these techniques are no longer available. This hurts long established play styles and makes gameplay slower and movement restrained.

This change can also slow down traveling overall, especially when combined with other methods of travel, such as using an elytra with pearls. This would mean that your momentum resets on every pearl, requiring you to build it up again.

The permanent implementation of this change will harm both survival players wanting faster travel and competitive PvP communities, which may lead to another divide in which version players play on. It is clear that this bug fix will hurt player bases significantly and therefore should be reverted.