> unfortunately one can see self-hosted Minecraft Java server development halted as well in foreseeable future.

As someone who's an idiot and doesn't know what they're talking about, how hard would it be to make Minetest compatible with Minecraft servers?

Edit: I recognize you're talking about 1st party Minecraft server development now, there are 3rd party implementations though, correct?

Presumably there would need to be modifications to the Minetest engine, but it seems easier than re-implementing Minecraft from scratch - and would be a great screw you to M$.