I have provided images that shows the drastic reduction in quality for Java Realms between 1.17.1 and 1.18 by direct comparison.
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Duplicate of MC-243216 which was fixed in 1.18.1 Pre-release 1.

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Really sad with the reduction of view distance, hard to enjoy the new mountains when you can't see them anymore.