Ruined portal structures generate with crying obsidian in the portal frame. However, crying obsidian itself cannot be actually used to make portals, which is considered intentional - see MC-173218. So it seems odd from a gameplay perspective that this block exists as part of the frame (especially considered from the perspective of a new player, who probably wouldn't understand why the portal they completed does not open).
Solution would be to either make crying obsidian not be part of the portal frame (potentially existing elsewhere in the structure instead), or allow it to be considered a valid frame material.
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Connor, your logic would apply to fossils with coal ore too, which they haven't fixed because it isn't a bug.
By having crying obsidian in the portal frame Mojang are implying that crying obsidian is a valid block for building portals with. A new player would complete said portal with obsidian blocks, attempt to light said portal, and, after it doesn't light, be convinced that the entire portal was a waste of time. And given that crying ohsidian has basically every other property of normal obsidian, it'd be completely reasonable for them to assume it works with portals. So either they admit that the structures are intended to mislead, allow crying obsidian as a valid frame block, or remove it from the frame and only allow it to spawn as corners.
That would be feature request which belongs on the feedback website, not a bug report. (As all requests to make dispensers more consistent here are marked invalid and the posters are asked to take it to the feed back websight)
Two: Well...forget about two
https://twitter.com/slamp0000/status/1250416942160080896
Based on the tweet here, it seems to be intentional, even though it's just hinting the structure.
So these structures were planned to mislead new players?
Obviously new players are just gonna look up information about Minecraft on the internet. (e.g the Minecraft wiki / Youtube).
I would say you brought up fair aurgment for changeing it but it doesn't belong on this sight, take it to the minecraft feedback website if you wish to peruse this topic.
They generate like this due to it maybe being aged. That is like that as a way to get crying obsidian.