[Filligree]

And mod developers would heave a sigh of relief. The version treadmill is the hardest part of maintaining a mod; everything bitrots.

[Vilian]

You don't need to maintain anything if it don't exist, like mods support in bedrock edition

[Filligree]

The most-recent Minecraft version would continue to exist, and by the looks of Starlight and such would continue to be improved.