You don't see the red cross anymore if you hold the barrier in creative.
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Oh, oops my bad particles off D: sorry about that

Shouldn't barrier particles be airways visible when you hold a barrier? I see no good reason for the restriction with the setting. If you want to avoid lag, yo can just not hold a barrier. But it you want to see the barriers, there is no other way than to set the setting up. So you would have to do it anyway and the lag it saved you is irrelevant, it even creates more because of the higher required setting.
In short: If you hold a barrier, you expect to see barriers.
@unknown Sometimes you need to work with barriers (and place them) and having lag during that is not useful. :/
(Watch out where you comment; this was resolved almost 3 years ago and necroposting is not a nice thing...)

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