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This is totally intentional, what if you wanted to mute the game?
You're supposed to mine it with buckets, that is why the "bucket of powder snow" item exists
I can confirm this, and it has broken my mob grinder, which works on a basis of freezing.
I believe this is intentional, it is a "dead" bush because it has no nutrients.
This appears to be a duplicate of MCL-20783