Why would they do that? They specifically made bedrock edition so that the game could be more cross platform, which has worked extremely well for them financially.

Java edition has never been playable on anything other than Windows, Mac, and Linux, porting an SDL version onto any of those is extremely easy.

Getting everyone on one platform is a much better model for Microsoft than trying to resell you a copy on each device.

> Java edition has never been playable on anything other than Windows, Mac, and Linux

That IS cross platform. One, two, three platforms. Count them.

Or once again change the login system in some way that locks tons of people out

How does that make sense? SDL is extremely portable?

Just because SDL is portable it doesn't mean MS is willing to use that portability :)

That's fair, I did not consider that.