I was looking at some different seeds in 1.14 Pre-1 (Edit: Older versions too like 1.13 and 1.12 at least) and noticed when I made a large biomes world the beaches would be massive like they scaled with the rest of the biomes. Images attached.
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This is intentional. Beaches have always changed size along with other biomes when modifying biome sizes, either by large biomes or customized world types. Once they add back custom world generation (which I predict will come in 1.15), I will be able to set the biome size to 5, which have just the right size beaches (and biomes in general).
Fun fact: Biome size 4 is the default size, while biome size 6 is in large biomes. Biomes take up 4 times more area for each unit added to biome size, so biomes in the "large biomes" world type are 16 times larger than default.
I checked some other versions and it appears to happen in at least 1.12, 1.13, and 1.14, my mistake. I feel like this is still silly though, the beaches look weird and unnatural so I would still consider it a bug. Would love to see it fixed in full 1.14 but considering it is not a new or gamebreaking bug it's understandably probably low priority.