I have been using the same xp farm for over a year on my single player world and it is taking about twice as long to repair items with this issue. I have tested this with no armor on and a completely empty inventory except for the 1 item I am trying to repair. In all my testing with it taking longer to repair items that it did before it would seem that it is splitting the xp with some orbs going to the item with mending and some going to the xp bar, about a 50/50 split
Still same issue on bedrock 1.16.0 Xbox One
This in happening again in 1.7.0 tried in realms single player and on a BDS with command blocks and by typing in the command on the xbox one you always end up at build height instead of on the ground. Tried in normal maps and superflat worlds same results
is affecting Version 1.17.0 as tried in anvil and cartography table same result