Axolots stops leaving water in 1.17, and it made them always active, to test this out, trap in in a water pool and it will swim around forever, it will swim in 2x2 squares
Edit: I am using cracked minecraft but the bug is real
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Might be related to MC-231613.
This report is invalid as you mentioned that you were using a "cracked" version of Minecraft.