Right. It’s been years since they promised a modding API. Mods draw the community. A modding API is not a big ask considering the community has made half a dozen mod interfaces from the source code leak. MSsimply don’t want to spend any amount of resources to help development when they can’t justify how it will make them money. MS has been pushing monetization since they purchased Mojang. If you make a modding API then you can’t charge for items that do nothing besides limit creativity, such as player skins (the most basic example of something that everyone has been using as a creative part of the game even without mods).

The java backend is doomed from the onset. Then why is the bedrock edition not better? It’s a simple game that a small team of competent engineers should have done in less than two years. Unless they actually make a modding API for the bedrock edition, the bedrock edition will be little more than a footnote. The java edition will remain the most relevant set of releases until mods are officially supported in bedrock.