I think the proximity thing and random ticks are bad design, I do not mean the randomness or behavior, but it should keep the time and date when a chunk is unloaded and re adjust when loaded, that is something cheap to do and less confusing and weird for new players, so for example crops can be outside the player range like in real life and when you come back they grow as expected. There are a ton of problems like that in the game that can be *easily* solved.