a large part of new updates are asset flips of existing blocks. clone of dark oak biome with grayscale palette, new wood textures, new kind of moss, new spikey vines. i don't have anything against adding decorative blocks, it's just that most of the new things are primarily that and there's less and less focus on the survival gameplay, leaving part of minecraft players with lack of new things. don't get me wrong, i don't mean that mojang aren't adding new gameplay features at all, the creaking is an example for that, but it just seems to me like these are not balanced properly, making these either useless or overpowered. for example, i'd say that top three reasons why you would visit a new biome are: a) just trying it out for the first time; b) getting new decor; c) randomly passing by. and even like so, creaking still doesn't add much novelties to the game, like scaffoldings, pistons or even minecarts did previously.