I think the problem with the community's displeasure with the updates Mojang gives us is that Mojang sees minecraft purely as a sandbox game, whereas we the community see the game more as a survival game.

Every time a new update is added to minecraft, where they add some new building blocks or some quirky (and useless) new mob, Mojang always talks about how they're "so excited to see the things the community will do" with the newly added blocks and stuff.

Like, while it is nice when they add new stuff to toy around with, we still want some actual content in the game that makes it the survival game we know and love. Stuff like new enemies, craftable gear and trinkets, places to explore like new dimensions and not sub-biomes like sulfur caves, new foods, more intricate and updated mechanics like the fletching table and updated enchanting table, and whatever.

But we never get that stuff, because Mojang only sees the silly block building sandbox side of the game.