Minecraft devs swore off yearly updates after giant Caves and Cliffs patch pushed them to the brink

"What happened as a result of Caves and Cliffs was we decided that we wanted to move to a more rapid cadence of updates," ...

Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools

Mojang got so in over its head overhauling all of Minecraft's world generation tech five years ago that it swore off yearly title updates not long after.