How do they not seem to realize the value in making it easy for people to hack it like this?
Look at the installation page...
https://gilesknap.github.io/mciwb/main/user/tutorials/01-set...
Why?
Can't we please have a way to trivially do this?
So I have quite a few prerequisites for my Python tutorials and this makes the first page intimidating.
However, installing and running MC java edition has got more fiddly since Microsoft took over. There was a horrible transition phase where accounts were being migrated from Mojang.
It's kind of OK now. But I'm sad that Microsoft is pushing hard on Bedrock Edition and look like they may try to ditch Java. This project could be adapted to Bedrock without much trouble but there is a whole class of things {NBT related} that you don't seem to be able to do via the remote interface in Bedrock.