[MC-301000] Non-leader zombified piglins will never summon reinforcements, unlike other zombie variants

I assume this behavior is related to MC-14800
Developers didnt want to see zombies in the nether and set the value to 0 manually
This is not needed anymore since zombified piglins will spawn zombified piglins as reinforcements.
Also if a zombified piglin spawned as a leader it will spawn zombified piglins thus making this a bug.

To reproduce:

Find a group of zombified piglins and/or summon new ones (without specifying any NBT)
/execute as @e[type=minecraft:zombified_piglin] run attribute @s minecraft:spawn_reinforcements base get
❌ Their spawn_reinforcements attributes' base values are all 0
Repeat steps 1-2 with any other zombie variant (zombie, zombie villager, drowned or husk)
✅ Their spawn_reinforcements attributes' base values are in the range 0-0.1

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clamlol 2025-09-05T09:31:54Z

Can confirm, updated title and reproduction steps.

This also happens in 1.21.1, the version before 24w33a (the snapshot which fixed MC-14800), so this was not caused by said fix. The question is whether zombified piglins are intended to have different reinforcement-spawning rules from other zombie variants or whether their lack of reinforcement-summing was a temporary disability which can now be removed.