Irrelevant Updates

AS much as I love the game and regularly come back to it every year os so, why do I feel that the new updates are weird and irrelevant to the game? it just keeps me pushing to modded MC rather than OG.

I really feel what you mean. They need to release something really new

with microsoft in charge its basically updated by committee which means no one dev calls the shots anymore
want a new tree type? we gotta run it by 16 ppl to confirm, not to mention focus test to see if its more popular than this new metal type etc etc

notch may have beliefs that suck but he at least could slap together massive updates in months
the passion is not in the hands of those in charge anymore, straight up