Render distance randomly decreasing in worlds larger than 350 megabytes

Reposting to make it easier to find this

since 1.21.70 was released, I have been noticing that every so often, the render distance world randomly decrease to 5 chunks even though I have it set to 12, and it stays stuck at 5 chunks until I restart my world.

I have noticed it has been happening completely at random, and also sometimes when the game auto saves.

I do not have a reliable way to reproduce this, as it is completely random, but I tested different worlds with the 2 addons I use (realism vfx and furniture 1.4) and it only occurred in the world over 350 megabytes, and it did not happen in my worlds without addons, but probably because I don’t have any massive worlds without addons. I have also noticed that the 1.21.81 hotfix seemed to have made it worse and more frequent.

Expected result: render distance should stay the same and not randomly decrease.

Observed result: render distance randomly changes to 5 chunks instead of what the player has it set as.

How to reproduce: completely random.

Side note: I know I have already reported this bug, but I am posting a new report to hopefully make it easier for you to track it, so don’t mark it down as a duplicate of my older report, this has a little more info of what i have tested and will hopefully make things easier.

If it does help at all, I play on Nintendo switch oled model system version 20.0.1

I do have a video of the bug occurring whilst I was building something

Edit: I tried going on my main world (the one that is over 350 megabytes) and the bug occurred after only 5 minutes