There are so many ways to customize Minecraft in 2022. There are so many ways to change it completely, from mods and behavior packs to resource packs and texture packs. That’s important for a game created in the late 2000s that is still thriving today.
Plugins are an often overlooked part of the title because they’re not as cool or flashy as mods. However, they require neither a third-party client nor any extra content on the player side. They don’t even technically count as a non-vanilla addition to the game.
Plugins can be used to do all sorts of things to the game and are frequently added to servers.