Ehhh… The Java edition has had more than one dude working on it for a long time. It’s not like MS bought it and tossed the code in a vault.
I play both pretty evenly, and while bedrock isn’t as bad as people say it is (anymore?), Java is still probably the answer.
That said, they’re both fuckin maddening to admin.
I’d love faster boats (I’d love faster minecarts more). As is tradition for the mob vote though, you don’t really know what you’re voting for. When I heard “can help your boat travel faster”, I think “rad, faster boats”, but that could also mean “can help your boat travel faster [when you’re nearby penguins and being in the boat doesn’t count]” or anything in between.
Lived in California (SoCal and Bay Area) my entire 42 years.
No, we don’t.
There was a short, planned outage in my neighborhood (San Diego suburbs) last summer - we got a few days notice (can’t recall if it was a letter or an email). Didn’t have one the summer before that. I don’t recall any power outages when I lived in the Bay Area.