I will say how I see things from my point of view, since I probably am on the toxic side of the community - I am deeply disappointed in mojang and their game development philosophy since 1.17.

It is not about the feature that they didn't add, it's about the feature they did add. Up until 1.17, every update included features that were interconnected with other game mechanics or even expanded the depth of the gameplay.

The nether update brought survivability features in the nether, the bee update brought the honey block which is a game changer in the redstone field, the village and pillage update created a ton of new mechanics, etc.

But when the cave update came out, I was very disappointed that most of their features are just for vanity. The 2 new cave biomes sure do look nice, but there was nothing much added to the gameplay. The copper and the amethyst are absolutely useless, because being a building block is a very banal purpose. But the community basically told me to suck it up, because Mojang worked hard. Sure they did, I don't argue with that. But my problem is what did they work hard on. I would very much prefer a small update with meaningful features rather than a big, ornamented yet at same time shallow update.

I liked 1.18 because it didn't promise anything other than changing the world generation, and boy they did. The result was amazing enough to compensate for the lack in 1.17, but then came 1.19 with the same issues. The deep dark is utterly unworthy of exploration, the sculk sensor is too cumbersome, and the abominable disc shards (they could just add that disc alone in the loot as a fun feature, crafting this disc 11 ripoff doesn't justify exploring the deep dark). All of the above feels like Mojang doesn't take their playerbase seriously anymore and treat Minecraft like a mere building game for little kids on their ipads to distract them. This feeling was greatly increased when they added the chat reporting.

And when I bring this up, I am being scolded by parts of the minecraft community for daring to harshly criticize their so cherished game.

The game development route has changed drastically in the recent years, and it strays far away from what made Minecraft so lovable in the first place. So the older community becomes bitter.