[nottorp]

> my son is deeply into the PvP side of things where the new combat options are hugely appealing

But is he not using mods because he doesn't want to, or just because he hasn't got into it yet? Perhaps soon he'll run into a must-have java mod and drop bedrock.

Personally I learned about MC and even that there are mods by helping my then 12 year old daughter install them...

[jon-wood]

Oh he's hard into the world of Java edition mods, my point was more that they're adding combat options to the core game because there's a huge audience demanding more combat options.