Setting the gamerule doMobSpawning to false doesn't prevent natural hostile mobspawning.
Was tested in a new world created in 17w45b using the following command:
/gamerule doMobSpawning false
MC-121930
gamerule doMobSpawning false not working for hostile mobs
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