There's some significant gains from available mods and while they couldn't hire one of the most prolific modders in that space I can't imagine it would be insur

There's some significant gains from available mods and while they couldn't hire one of the most prolific modders in that space I can't imagine it would be insurmountably difficult to hire someone with the relevant JVM or OpenGL expertise to really clean up the game. If they could implement some of the low hanging fruit that would be a fantastic step but Mojang seemingly have zero desire to seriously tackle performance.