Since 19w39a the players arm swings when he drops the item in his hand. If I remember correctly, this is an indented feature in the Bedrock Edition and thus probably is one in the Java Edition too. However: Me and a hand full of people I asked think that it is very annoying. For me it looks like a bug / unintended feature. This might not be the case for new players to the game, but it definitely is the case for me and many others.
Please overthink this feature and at the very least add a setting for it. I really don't want to be forced to play with a modded client in the future, just to disable this feature.
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Gerrygames
As I already wrote in the initial post, I know that this is an intended feature. I asked for a setting to disable the feature, because it's annoying. Can't really see why this is closed as "works as intended". There is nothing that could work as intended (or not).
tryashtar
If you're requesting a feature, please do so on the feedback site rather than the bug tracker
This is intended after the fix to MC-127094