Moderator Note
It is intended behavior that you cannot begin sprinting while riding entities or flying with elytra. See MC-257082.
Testing out finding Smithing Templates in survival in the new snapshot, and I made a boat to sail. However, it appears that pressing sprint (and double tapping W) doesn't increase my sailing speed.
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WAI as per the fix of MC-257082. This was purely a visual bug, sprinting whilst riding a boat does not actually increase its speed.
I fail to comprehend the reasoning behind the intentional change made. It significantly affects players who enjoy gliding into water using an elytra. Previously, one could swim faster by sprinting, but this functionality has been removed. Although sprinting while gliding with an elytra outside of water may seem pointless, it shouldn't justify removing this ability, especially since sprinting while gliding with an elytra in water serves a purpose. Additionally, it's now necessary to stop gliding in the water to swim faster, which can be frustrating as it requires landing or unequipping the elytra, both of which are problematic on laggy servers. While it's commendable that elytra activation has been client-side since 1.15, the inability to deactivate the elytra without server response creates issues, particularly on laggy servers. In summary, activating the elytra is easy on laggy servers, but deactivating it becomes challenging, leading to a delay in being able to sprint in water, significantly reducing swimming speed.
@oowooglac (Inactive) That is tracked in MC-260440.
According to MC-257082, the previous behavior of FOV changing while riding an entity was a bug. According to that bug report your speed also did not actually change, so the FOV changing wasn't indicating anything anyway.