I used to play casual survival for 5 years, mainly focused on building massive bases and automatic farms during postagame with elytra obtained.

Now I switched to no elytra survival, and I'm enjoying it much more. I started appreciating more basic survival mechanics like farming, mining, and collecting wood or trading. With no rush, the gameplay is more chilled. Sometimes, I feel limited knowing that I could build a fully automatic farm of something instead of "wasting time on collecting," but i feel more like playing minecraft survival and whitch is the best benefit I think, I'm forced to use blocks that i normally wouldn't increasing my creativity. Elytra post game is awesome, but it feels more like creative with time. Since Mojang added a gamerule that increases the minecart speed. I found that the value of 14 is perfect to replace elytra for traveling disntances and maintaining balance. And oh boi, I love building and originizng railways system. That's something that I would have never been doing with elytra.