Well this sounds like a wonderful step in the right direction. In theory. Maybe I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but this is Microsoft, and I feel like I really need to check the inside of this gift horse for a group of heavily armed Greek soldiers.
I don't trust them. What's the catch? What's their strategy here? Gifts from Microsoft are never free.
Have the community been asking for this? Is the existing de-obfuscation process onerous or problematic? Obviously it's ultimately unnecessary and less than ideal, but as a developer I often value consistency over correctness and this seems like it's potentially creating a large inconsistency for the sake of correctness and possibly little practical value and that raises a few red flags for me.
I'm wondering what the reaction to this news from modders is like. I'm not super into Minecraft modding personally, but won't this disrupt the modding scene at least temporarily and break backwards compatibility? Unless it's 1:1 perfectly aligned to the previous mappings they released, and even then, this feels like something that could sow a lot of chaos and confusion and create a lot of extra work at least until the dust settles.