I was under the impression that 1.13.1 was supposed to be a big optimization fix for servers and the lag they get, probably most notably the Hermitcraft server and all the trouble they have been having with elytra. Despite Hermitcraft specifically being a vanilla world (outside of datapacks), wouldn't it stand to reason that the priority should be to get an operational version of forge for the more "optimized" version that most servers are likely to run, rather than the original release, which is apparently full of optimization issues as noted in multiple different youtube LPs on various different servers?
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