They do, but it seems like they can make specific games support different versions. I feel like this would be worth losing 1.16 support for games like twars, where information about opponents is very important. Plus, I bet the people that downgrades is a very small minority in the overall playerbase.
Like Royal Toast said, Hive still supports 1.16. They did say that you would have to upgrade for new minigames, but they didn’t say anything about current minigames. Also, a lot of people could just use zoom as an alternative. Good idea, though.
That doesn’t detract from this being added at all.
Some people don’t trust clients. Some can’t install them.
The only people who use clients are sweats. They’re meant to improve gameplay, and sweats are the only people who care enough about gameplay to install them.
If you’re a sweat, you aren’t going to use the zoom feature at all.
This suggestion is geared towards more casual players, not Pc sweats who have clients. Just because clients exist doesn’t mean there can’t be an item accomplishing a task that said client does.