>>1053877
I don't think minecraft had a direction since it's inception, it was just something a fat swedish guy was doing for fun, and it was up to the player to find the fun in a blocky building game, which many did. There was only ever a vague idea of making minecraft into a 3d dwarf fortress, but I'm sure Notch quickly saw that it would not be feasible with how certain thigns start impacting performance, it was how many years that lighting continued to have issues? It's how many years that performance sucked because it was trying to render terrain that wasn't visible to the player? How many years that it still does that after the "fix", but only illuminated areas under ground?
Notch and his team were able to just coast on the momentum without donig much actual work on it, for a long time, but now that microsoft is in charge and mojang has "guidelines" to adhere to, the direction seems to be worse than no direction at all. Even though endermen were introduced after Notch started taking suggestions from reddit and were not well received, they still ended up serving a purpose. Now we've got retard pandas that roll off cliffs, another boss mob even worse than the wither that exists just to rape you to death if it hears your ass hair rub together, dancing parrots, ocelots were made useless with the introduction of cats that villagers just spawn more of, beacons are still trash, armordildos drop leprosy scabs to make dog bondage armor, and the first real "adventure" type addition in years, the copper dungeon, seems like a slap in the face after not adding copper golems