All mobs need stacking due to prevention of lag and also general fairness of profits per different mobs. If one mob isn't made to stack then I'd have more of a problem with that than all mobs being forced to stack.

-1

 

I'd say server performance is more important.

 

I do think being able to not rubberband every 3 seconds is more important than a handful of bees :p

 

To say there's a lack of blocks is absurd. It hasn't even been a week since bees have been an obtainable source for the community so either people are farming bees or still setting up shop. I have a double chest of both new blocks on north and plan on staying in control of the honey market since it's new. Both servers have had an equal opportunity to start utilizing bee farms and distributing the new blocks out into the economy, and from the sounds of it main is lacking in that - just give it time and shops will open up with blocks.

As for the suggestion, it's a huge -1. Server performance always comes first and then you find a way to work around the restrictions. Farms always work different on ECC compared to vanilla MC due to restrictions, whether it is by redstone or mob stacking limits. Players will adapt to the limits and create farms around them.

 

-1 Get more creative in the design of your farms. Stacking bees can be worked around easily with proper spacing of sealed rooms housing the nests. Build up vertically and access each with lift signs. You could have hundreds of separate beenests (or hives) with a single stack of 3 bees each producing honey. Make up in volume what you lose in efficiency from the stacking.

 

Not happening for performance reasons. Sorry.

 

Perhaps one day, if/when Mojang improves Minecraft performance.