That was actually reported as a bug, and it was resolved as fixed, which will probably take place tomorrow in the next snapshot.

Seed for the second image: 599282705
Coordinates: -36 77 -128

Seed for the third image: 6513518047732842010
Coordinates: 188 236 -260

Yes, I think the overworld is in a very good place right now. The underground could use 3-10 more biomes, depending on how varied we want it to be. 3 (technically 4 if we count "none") is far too few.

An autumn biome is one of the few surface biomes I would be good with. Otherwise, focus on more vertical biomes in places like the caves or the Nether.

Sheep variant definition. I can understand if Mojang didn't have the time to pivot and design Sheep variants, but I wish they at least added the variant definition for them so that creators could add them themselves with data packs.

It was such a glaring mistake, considering that even later, Mojang barely even bothered iterating on the villager rebalances unlike the combat tests. Yet they still added small QoL features from it like better wandering traders and biome locator maps.

All I know is that some might snort at the implications of a certain pottery sherd, excavated from the warm ocean ruins.

Not a serious speculation this time, but anything to reference the hoglins dancing joke posted by Henrik Kniberg.

This drop has the best focus I've seen in the drop system so far, being different mob encounters along with giving certain mobs the ability to take on elytra players, and they executed it pretty well. Especially with the camel jockey, which is amazing to fight!