Still rocking my i7-950, air-cooled overclocked to almost 4 Ghz for the last 14 years without a single major hiccup. Bi-annual cleaning and a re-paste every 2-3 years has probably helped.
It finally showed its age though about 2 years ago when some new games required new instruction sets and couldn't launch at all. A new build is finally in the works.
I think Linus recently mentioned (probably on LAN show) that they are positioned soon to make more money from merchandise than what their YT channel generates - because of their huge drops of the new backpack and screwdriver.
> You can simply mod servers so that they don't have this chat reporting. If everyone in the Minecraft community is so opposed, just create and exclusively join modded servers.
This only applies to people who own the JAVA version. People who only own Bedrock/Windows 10 version do not have this option.
It finally showed its age though about 2 years ago when some new games required new instruction sets and couldn't launch at all. A new build is finally in the works.