Well, it seems, that it is indeed the fault of the view distance. If I change it to "2 chunks", world generation is instantaneous. I still would consider this a bug because once the chunks are generated for the first time it works fine using the long view distance.
Regarding the second remark, I can see how you can get the impression of 512x512 textures:
Well, it seems, that it is indeed the fault of the view distance. If I change it to "2 chunks", world generation is instantaneous.
I still would consider this a bug because once the chunks are generated for the first time it works fine using the long view distance.
Regarding the second remark, I can see how you can get the impression of 512x512 textures:
But I do not have a single resource pack installed, this message must be about something else (or maybe another bug?) as you can see in this line: