Why does this happen? It doesn't make sense that the armor that takes a lot of effort to obtain makes the mace enchantment that is really hard to obtain almost useless.
This is an issue we are having, and they are still billing us for realms that we can't access. Microsoft support is ignoring us, and has for the last few weeks. They won't cancel the duplicate subscriptions either.
This is still an issue in 1.20.80.
No idea if this helps or not, but a while ago, I found a way to reproduce this consistently. I had a boat with an allay in it on a wall of blocks 4-5 blocks tall. I stood on the edge of the boat, so I was partially above the boat was on, partially in the air. The allay would start to nod its head, and I took consistent repeated fall damage. I assume what was happening and what may be happening here is that the game thought I should fall because I was partially in the air, and caused me to "fall", with the allay tracking that position. The game then realized I should be on the boat, and so teleported me there. My friend came to watch, and they saw me falling and teleporting back up.
I reproduced it on a local world by digging a two tall, one block wide tunnel, entering, and eating the golden apple.
Just reproduced it on a local world.
I have no idea what happened to your save, but try closing minecraft and relogging. There was a bug not too long ago that caused something like this, but if you didn't mine anything it fixed itself after relogging. Not an official helper or anything, but that might help. Keeping backups of your worlds is always a good idea.
Was not able to replicate on a creative world outside of realms.
(Switched to survival when fighting wither)
Found a workaround that takes a lot less time. Send a shulker through the portal, and then send a minecart through. Have a platform of rails to catch the minecart in the overworld at world height, jump through the portal and immediately relog. Shulker appeared on rails by the time I could fly up.
If you enable full keyboard gameplay, it messes with all of your keybinds and shuffles them around, maybe that's the issue? I'm on computer so I don't know how that affects xbox. (still Bedrock)
Having this issue as well, this issue has been going on for too long. Issues that take customers money should be top priority.
Had same issue, seems to be fixed now