This causes their bottom faces to appear unnaturally orderly, as well as cause them to rotate by themselves when snow is added or removed from them.
A resource pack that fixes this as well as MC-1483 can be found attached to this ticket. Mojang have my full consent in directly implementing these assets into the game with or without making any further changes.
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Duplicate of MC-144914
I would say that is a good thing because you can see the location by just looking at the random generated textures and knowing the algorithm