please dont give me the works as intended thing, pumpkin and melon farms have worked with a block above the stem since always.
i have killed 350 drowned if my statistics page is correct, maybe 10 of them with a bow, but the rest for sure with a looting III sword. some of them had tridents, all of them spawned naturally on an ocean biome, still, no trident drop.
i have just died twice in that world and the two times i have appeared on top of the bedrock layer.
i doesnt work as intended, mob griefing set to false is supposed to be there to stop the griefing of things from mobs, and the dragon summons giant obsidian pilars that destroy more blocks than 100 creepers together
is not a bug, but is preventing people from playing the their worlds....
that has been happening since 1.9, personally, i hate everything that has to do with the end in 1.9, but has been there for a long time now and is intended to work that way