OK, I respect your opinion.

I’m coming from a place of administering a server and I attest to this:

• Minecraft players want their particular mods on their particular seed, they don’t see value in armadillos and whatever other nonsense MS is “releasing”.
• most of my player base has moved on to Vintage Story because Minecraft itself is stagnating like counterstrike did. And now we have the same situation CS had, where there’s a huge base of mc players who are stuck on old versions because, let’s be honest, Minecraft is stale AF under microsoft.
• just because modern hardware is better at running vanilla doesn’t mean paper won’t run even better.