The main thing I am critical of are the chat reports, but that was essentially Microsoft’s doing.
Back when the likes of 1.9 and 1.11 came out, they added things people they wanted (elytra, firework boosting) but ended up screwing over how the whole game worked. So I can see why they’re being careful with harmless small changes. It’s also a 16 year old game, the fact that they’re pushing free updates for a one off £20 purchase is excellent. The game is also already pretty good as it is. The mob vote was a nice idea for community engagement(although they could have been more clearer on how the losers would be added later on). I think people are FAR too toxic that they aren’t receiving free updates for a £20 game that is already absolutely stellar, and that many have poured thousands of hours in already, if not tens of thousands. I’ve been playing it for over a decade now, and I am quite happy with the direction it is going. People are ungrateful that they aren’t getting huge game changing updates every year. Things like that need to be well balanced and ironed out to prevent a disaster like 1.11 happening again.
Global chat bans is the chat hate. Minecraft was (and still primarily is) a single player game with private server capability. Banning people from using a feature they paid for in a setting entirely unrelated to the company is a problem.
Its especially a problem if you own your own server, as you can be banned from doing any in-game admin work, including banning people via chat commands. again on a server you own and run that is disconnected from microsoft and mojang entirely.
Its a paradigm shift that has never had an equal in gaming. In no other games with private servers are features restricted on private servers. No one should have the capability to do that.