"added in the past decade" is 1.9 to now (1.8.9 released on 9/12/2015, 1.9 released on 29/2/2016).
Things "that anyone really wanted" (By which I mean the highlights of Minecraft additions):
in 1.9.x:
The offhand and shields
Attack cooldown
Mending
Elytra (fireworks didn't work on them until 1.11.1)
Removed Herobrine
in 1.11.x:
Shulker boxes
Totems of undying
Observers
Firework elytra boosting
in 1.12.x:
Concrete
Recipe book
in 1.13.x:
Swimming
Bubble columns
Phantoms
in 1.14.x:
Rerolling villager trades
Other villager improvements
Raid farming for renewable totems and easy emeralds
in 1.16.x:
Netherite
Piglin bartering
Fast automatic food farm (Hoglins)
in 1.17.x:
Moss
Copper
Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs
in 1.19.x:
Sculk sensors
Allays (Non-stackable item sorting)
in 1.20.x:
Calibrated sculk sensor
Amethyst sculk resonance
Bamboo wood
Armour trims
in 1.21.x:
Crafter
Bundle
Happy ghast
Shelf
Copper golem
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Mods? The features I think mods probably would not have done equally or better, or would not have come up with something as unique, are:
Offhand
Removing Herobrine
Raid farms
Piglins
Sculk sensors
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Others that idk whether qualify for the list:
Mending
Recipe book
Villager overhaul
Moss
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(I'm talking hypothetically about mods here because I have not played old modded (or old versions at all, the first Minecraft version I played was 1.13))
(This is just my opinion combined with comunity reception of things, I'm not trying to argue)
It's not only pastures. Growing animal feed is vastly less efficient than growing food for humans directly. We could stop farming animals, use some of that land for growing human food, rewild the excess, and rewild the pastures.
If some of the land used for pastures and for growing animal feed were used to grow food directly for humans, and the rest were rewilded, human land use would be massively lower.
Ban animal farming. It’s as vile as genocide and quite similar to it, and it wastes lots of our resources and damages the environment.
Most .ml users sign up because of things other than the instance's politics
.ml bad, random .ml user likely not bad