While in game both single player and on a personal server, the escape key doesn't do anything. It won't pause the game and bring up the pause menu, and it won't dismiss GUIs, like for open chests.
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Sorry, just tested with 1.19.3 and also have the issue there now, so this is likely an issue with my machine.