Dylan Magar

Bum Crops by Bumble. The problem seems isolated to realms and servers, and occurs when eating a custom food item that triggers an effect targeting the player.

Mobs seem to constantly halt for a parsec or two

1 parsec = 3.26 light-years

Which is equal to roughly 3.086e+16 meters, or thirty quadrillion, eight hundred sixty trillion blocks. That's one heck of a lag spike, amigo!

While I do understand where you're coming from, and admire your conviction, I invite you to consider the following:

Re: "It still seems very inappropriate to allow survival players to type a magic code to display arbitrary translation strings". To be fair, they're far from arbitrary and can serve an important role in survival servers, for example where one or more players might prefer a different language than the server's default locale.

Re: "Raw text is a technical feature that seems very intentionally reserved for mapmakers. For the same reason you can't just type raw text directly into chat and expect the game to parse it." Ahh, then you might be surprised to learn that the tellraw command is supported in survival mode as well, and has been for some time. The only tellraw feature that requires cheats to be enabled is selector expansion, allow me to demonstrate:

In summary, you make a very solid point about the potential for loss of immersion, but it seems to me that Mojang has opted to prioritize multilingual accessibility over perfect survival immersion. Which to me seems perfectly reasonable, all things considered. 

@tryashtar Does this actually allow for survival players to access sensitive/cheat-restricted info though? As far as I was able to tell from a brief series of tests, this parses the JSON but doesn't actually perform any component resolution. In light of that fact, to me this seems pretty harmless and frankly quite convenient! 👍

For instance,

Can confirm, my classic skins haven't functioned correctly since some time early to mid-1.18. Previews fail to load in the store, and regardless of which skin I equip, the center default slot is always reset to Steve or Alex when I reload the game. That's definitely a seperate bug but it seems related enough to mention.