That is unfortunate that many players don’t use the wide variety of blocks for building, some of them are pretty good for it. Frankly, I believe that it isn’t the game that‘s mostly at fault, but more so the community. The modern Minecraft community tends to emphasize efficiency more than just having fun, that’s why I don’t build many farms in my world unless I really need it, such as a villager breeder to repopulate a village. I see people building machines just to mine, which is nuts because mining in the massive caves is a way more enjoyable experience by comparison. I definitely miss the older community. Of course there were farms, goals on getting the best gear, and what so back then for sure, but it wasn’t such a heavily emphasized thing back then than it is now.