Can confirm in 21w37a.
The same result was obtained for cactus.
[media]Obsidian is placed north and east of water.
Lava is placed south and west of the water.
I expected what was going on.
I think the fill command places blocks and updates surrounding blocks in order from the north and east corners.
Looking at the previous translation file, it seems that death.fell.accident.water has been deleted from 1.16.