Skeletons spawn less commonly than Ghasts in the Soul Sand Valley.
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Skeletons not pack spawning is MC-187916
Confirmed for 1.16 Pre-release 4. Skeletons are less rare, but they are still not common in any way.
Confirmed in PR4 as well, and it's bad. I created a 50x50 area of stone above the bedrock and waited for several minutes; never got more than four Skeletons at once aside from one test which spawned four Skeletons and a Ghast. Created a new world to confirm it wasn't just my server being corrupted (as we'd played through most of the snapshots), and got the exact same results.
At first I thought this was just something taking up the entire mob cap, because in Survival nothing spawns - especially in comparison to how packed the area was before. We referred to the area outside our portal as Normandy because it had taken so many Ghast blasts. Really hoping this isn't the new norm, at least as far as Ghasts are involved.
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Skeletons don't spawn more often than ghasts on Java Edition, but I have seen videos showing skeletons spawning way more often than ghasts on Bedrock Edition. If this is still the case in Bedrock, this is also a parity issue.