I think this is very extensive to say the least. First off, minecraft is not going down hill for a looooooooooongggg time! Do you know how small the number of people there are that actually care about the stuff you mentioned? Not most players. Also, the sprint button, while annoying (I have it binded to shift and changed shift to ctrl, so much easier) has been requested by probably at least a couple million minecraft players. They're going with the majority vote. While I understand your being upset by the freaking bullcrap inability to hit, and the sprint glitch annoys me too, I'm fairly sure those are problems with the newest NCP adjusting to 1.7, not 1.7 itself. In fact, having my own survival server I play on with YouTubers, I LOVE the update! The biomes are amazing, stained glass beautiful, fishing interesting, more redstone features for mapmakers, it's great!