Minecraft's prime was 1.7 - The game has gone to shit.

Honestly Mojang, I think I speak for a lot of people (mostly for those who have stopped playing through all these updates) when I say,

"Throw out all these crazy features and provide Modding tools to let the community decide what features are best. Bring back and improve terrain generation."

Let the community recreate Skyrim and whatnot. Minecraft needs a solid, efficient, bare bones version that got it popular in the first place. Minecraft could have an even greater future, but it is not on that path.