Ok this will likely be a long one but I need to get it off my chest. I absolutely HATE the idea of wool stairs and slabs in minecraft. I feel like an element of the game is removed by this feature. In the past I've been excited for the addition of any new stone of wood variants in minecraft, mainly because it means new stairs and slabs in a unique colour. I know that the idea of Mojang slowly dropping these blocks may be very unappealing to some as it seems the current fan base doesn't want minecraft to be a live service game with blocks being slowly added for years on end but I can't be the only one who thinks that having to explore new biomes to find new slabs and stairs in new and unique colours is an interesting concept. I don't want to be able to craft red or yellow slabs 2 seconds after spawning into a new world, I want to search for a sulphur cave or mangrove swamp. I brought this up with one of my friends and they told me that I could just not use the new blocks but in my mind that's not how it works, building in minecraft should be treated just like combat or progression, if you can craft blocks like these this easily then it doesn't matter if you use them or not because the fact is the blocks are in the game. It feels the same as if you played minecraft with a data pack that makes a wooden sword the best weapon in the game, even if you never craft a wooden sword you still know it's in the game. I understand that these blocks like pale oak wood and sulphur blocks are still unique textures and people will still seek them out but in the back of my mind I still feel like these new blocks devalue these blocks. To be honest I feel like if they made the blocks creative exclusive I be fine with it. This isn't elusive to the wool blocks aswell. THE WHOLE UPDATE IS LIKE THIS. To a much lesser extent I'll admit, but the new autumn biome is just disappointing in my mind. Just before this update was announced I was playing bugrock edition with my friends on a realm. I was working on a resource pack to add some things we've been wanting in the game, one of my friends asked for purple slabs and stairs so I started work on adding a way to do it by adding something like amethyst bricks, my other friend asked for brown leaves so I made brown leaf blocks craftable with leaf litter, then when the update was announced I lost all interest with the addon and I gave up on it. What's the point in trying to find unique ways of adding these coloured blocks if Mojang isn't even finding unique ways to add these blocks. I remember when the copper grate was added and people where using the block to make brown trees. This creativity may never be reached anymore if Mojang is just going to add stuff in the most simple and obvious way.