>>340224honestly there has been some updates that have improved the game:
the caves update, which got delayed and split into a bunch of parts, but most importantly added new upper and lower limits to the world, making bigger builds possible (don't really like caving in the new version though)
1.16 included a nether update that introduced variety into the nether and allowed for new weird things like soul sand elevators
1.13 gave the player increased mobility underwater
most updates have been useless though