For players who like vanilla Minecraft, #Mineclone could really be almost indistinguishable experience.

Feels like going back a couple of versions of the game (in terms of just not having a couple features that you are used to now).

With the current state of what Mojang do, there was no better time to try it.
We have such a big MC Java modding community, that has 0 support from Mojang. Imagine if only 10% of them would join Minetest development.