I like 1.14, not because of the villager updates, but because of the smaller details.
Like getting a better furnace for ores and food, no longer waste so much coal on food anymore.
The cornflower for me a BIG DEAL, because now you can dye sheep or leather armor or beds blue without needing to go mining and dig on diamond level and be like "Oh hey lapis" and throw it in a chest to ignore... You can just get the flower and boom dye your sheep blue.
The stonecutter becking bhip is AMAZING. We can get soooo many more stairs now than we used to, still technically not as many as we SHOULD according to reddit, but it is so much better.
Looms are so good too, instead of needing to look up recipes I can just plop a banner in and dye and boom just click on the design I want, like it used to be so much harder and that is not good for general audiences.
All the new slabs, stairs, and walls, opens up a lot more for builders, but what really would help us would be new shapes, which most likely will never come.
Cats now spawning in villages make obtaining the cute things so much easier. Like it was hard to get ocelots to get the cats, some would argue this change is for the worse, but I think cuteness disagrees.
New loading screen, instead of the game going non-responsive while changing a texture pack or even loading the game from the launcher, it will display a loading screen.
Leaves now drop 0-2 sticks, this is really cool for survival maps... Like giving the player like 10 leaves or something, but no wood.... Or some other survival type map, really cool.
TNT now has a 100% drop rate, meaning if you like to go TNT mining, you get ALL the stone, ores, and anything else it blows up :D
Vines that can be climbed WITHOUT supporting blocks.... So many years we have asked for the ability to do this with ladders, and while I'd rather have ladders, with vines this is such a good mechanic.
Intuitive book and quils now. No longer do we need to remove everything on the page to fix one little typo, you can just edit it like you would a message on reddit.
When the player sneaks, we can now fit under so many new roof sizes.. Not only that, but we can now army crawl through 1 block gaps using a simple trapdoor!
Lighting has a brand new system which allows it to pass through non-full block filling blocks properly :D
... Just soooo many new features and changes that makes the game sooooo much better
