When creating a debug world the experiments button doesn’t appear locked and seemeingly lets you enable the experiments.
This however is false and the experiments won’t be activated. However the game will be put in a broken state where you can access the experimental features but using them will cause an exception.
For example running the /gamerule minecartMaxSpeed command will cause an error to show up
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