Just start believing the conspiracy theories. Looking or not looking just changes the lighting system from ambient to raytracing, simple. Why spend so many resources rendering what no player is there to observe? Low level simulation on unloaded chunks.
TLDR the goddamn universe makes no fucking sense if you really look at it.
Not looking at it only introduces more uncertainty.
Just start believing the conspiracy theories. Looking or not looking just changes the lighting system from ambient to raytracing, simple. Why spend so many resources rendering what no
playeris there to observe? Low level simulation on unloaded chunks.