I wouldn't consider it to be a feature request, it'd say it's closer to a bug fix myself, the hotbar has been broken all the way back since MC-67532. (It isn't broken in Bedrock, so you can say it's a parody feature, but it was originally like how it is in Bedrock before it was broken so I wouldn't consider it such.)
Also I would call this a completely logical report, before the new spliced hotbar sprites the HUD spritesheet (widgets.png) actually did contain the full hotbar_selection.png image that is present in Bedrock and has since been cut off by one pixel in Java.
StardustSys
I wouldn't consider it to be a feature request, it'd say it's closer to a bug fix myself, the hotbar has been broken all the way back since MC-67532. (It isn't broken in Bedrock, so you can say it's a parody feature, but it was originally like how it is in Bedrock before it was broken so I wouldn't consider it such.)
Also I would call this a completely logical report, before the new spliced hotbar sprites the HUD spritesheet (widgets.png) actually did contain the full hotbar_selection.png image that is present in Bedrock and has since been cut off by one pixel in Java.