Maybe bc it completely sidesteps the question? I have a nephew who is 7yrs old who only has an iPad and i can play with him due to geysermc, which is the correct answer.

It has roughly the same features, much worse moddability, and better performance.

At some point it was a weaker clone, but it developed into a very high quality clone, and has graduated into being a co-production with the Java version.

Get a refund from wherever you got your facts.

I'll give you half a point for "iPad kids" since that term implies a lot of incorrect things but it does run on iPads.

When bedrock was announced I was sure Microsoft had won the os arms race and had everything they needed to make an impenetrable monopoly:

* They could make bedrock moddable using .net, and make it so basically every kid interested in programming learned .net

* They could then drop the Java version and get more control over the game with it being harder to mod in un-sanctioned ways while still enabling the content most people want from mods

* And gain a powerful platform they can use to treat Windows/Xbox players better.

* With everyone writing .net it makes more sense to use Windows to develop, effectively reducing the number of fresh developers with posix experience. Stopping the mass exodus to posix since the 2010s MacBook air sublime text nodejs days.

But alas. Microsoft are incompetent. Minecraft was THE tool to turn the future in their favour and they completely overlooked it.

Bedrock exists to make more money. They don't like the Java free modding. They want a marketplace. They want to make money off all content in the game. They want to sell DLC. Make no mistake, they aren't platforming modders to make money because they are charitable. It is because they want to profit, and they can profit at scale by outsourcing the work.

That is in my opinion why most people are against bedrock, including myself. Bedrock is capitalist Minecraft. Enshittified Minecraft, with much more enshittification potential not yet realized. Java version is the only thing protecting bedrock from not being milked further, because it is competition.

They know most people prefer Java. Content creators mostly use Java. But it sells bedrock, and bedrock makes money. And if they can get enough people over, they can kill Java and finally milk bedrock

Yaaaa get those 9 year olds good stupid plebs can't even buy their own computer, you really gottem

You're defending a video game written in Java.