Minecraft is getting boring

I feel like I'll get flamed for this one. My take is that the more Minecraft updates there are, the more boring it gets. Idk, doesn't make sense to me either. I guess it's because back in the day, when Notch was part of the team, Minecraft was a fun little sandbox game. It was simple. I guess because it was so simple it was so fun. But now, the bigger the updates, the game feels more empty. It's like they add so much but then add nothing at all. Probably because they're adding so much it's becoming more of a to-do list then a game. For example, a mace sounds brilliant, but when it was added, it felt completely useless and stupid. Same with stuff like pale oak. Like why would I need pale oak? A huge update that has nothing to offer.