Nah, it was found sometime before november 24 2021, publicly disclosed in december 9 2021, and only used by 2b2t players on december 10 2021.

Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10 style) where everyone's playing the same version I'd be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content is nothing new, hell, they even brought the mobs that didn't make the cut from those stupid mob votes to life.
Let modding become the new updates, fuck it. At this point they'd likely be better realised than Microsoft's efforts.

Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock

Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server

I was thinking the same thing. If the de-obfuscation tools are already out there, it might cost them more money to keep that layer. Their developers also have to use it to read the crash logs and the like from the sounds of it. Less layers = less maintenance = less cost. More mods = keeps the game relevant.

Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.

If that happens, the modding scene would boom incredibly

And you'd have some smart nerds who take it upon them to keep updating the game much better than Mojang ever could.

It would become open source almost

Exactly. Community bindings do exist and are used over the official bindings already, and I think the source code obfuscation is just an annoyance by now.

They made "datapack" which is a way of playing with mods without having to use third-party mod loaders like Forge and Fabric but (don't quote me on this as I'm not a mod developer) it's not as powerful compare to the mod loaders.

I doubt microsoft even knows what luanti is

Whats that?

Lol no

With how bad it is at writing it, I'm guessing similarly bad. It'll do something, but odds are it introduces a ton of errors that you then have to track down. That's the best case. Worst case, it just creates something totally different that looks similar to the input but doesn't do the same thing.

Previously, they had the versioning system 1.MAJOR.MINOR, where Major referred to a feature update, and minor referred to bug fixes or other non-breaking technical changes

The first instance where they broke this was 1.16.2 by adding the Piglin Brute, but this was so minor that hardly anyone really cared, and hey, free feature with a minor update!

Well, now they have update "drops" where the minor version means either what it used to, or it's also a feature update, just not as big as a full update.

From the wiki:

• 1.20: Trails and Tales Update
• 1.20.3: Bats and Pots Drop
• 1.20.5: Armored Paws Drop
• 1.21: Tricky Trials Update
• 1.21.2: Bundles of Bravery Drop
• 1.21.4: The Garden Awakens Drop
• 1.21.5: Spring to Life Drop
• 1.21.6: Chase the Skies Drop
• 1.21.9: Copper Age Drop

Mojang started adding in substantive resource pack changes in the patches for 1.19. Which made it more annoying for resource pack artists to support the update their since it required 2 separate versions of a pack to be made and maintained just to make sure it works properly. Let alone the annoyance of having to constantly deal with people complaining about it not working when it is an issue Mojang made.

There is also Mojang’s censorship of their community that began in the 1.19 patch versions which allowed Mojang to just ban anyone for saying something they didn’t like. Servers largely just disable it since it’s a headache to deal with and it doesn’t benefit them at all, only Mojang.

Then in 1.20 and 1.21 Mojang began adding content in the patches so it makes it a nightmare to support the patch versions since they now function differently than they used to. Which only makes it harder for servers to update and makes the experience of joining servers more frustrating. So plenty of servers on those updates just blacklist certain versions just to make sure things are able to function.

Oh and at some point Mojang added censorship to player skins. And it can be triggered by just mass reporting any individual skin for any reason.

Basically Mojang made a fuck ton of problems where none needed to be or used to be.

Go join mc: consequences edition https://discord.gg/mojanglawsuit (Website link in case you don't wanna use discord: https://lawsuit.gg/)

I mean releasing the source under a license like GPL (or whatever the modern equivalent is).

Open-source and source-available are used interchangeably. Releasing the source does not mean the license will allow any form of redistribution or recompilation.

If you decompile the game yourself you can infinitely distribute the game as well. This is not an argument.

To add to this, it's exclusively available on the Microsoft Store, which has gotten so bad lately that I refused the terms on their most recent update and haven't had it installed on any machines since.