“Bold” is certainly one way of putting it.
It’s not exactly fair to pretend like this is a good risk to take. If you take a beloved IP you better make something that the people who love it would like. From the trailer I don’t think they even knew who their audience is. From the humour to visuals this was not made for the people who love Minecraft.
I don’t imagine the average user has a bunch of enderpearls suspended around their world.
The real performance changes we should be keeping an eye on are the redstone ones. We’ll see how good those end up being and how many contraptions they break.