4) I would suggest setting up a system of button operated command blocks to teleport you.
To do this safely in survival would require traveling to a new location first to find/set up a safe destination area.
(So you don't end up inside rock, way up in the air or in lava.)
You could, for instance, build teleportation rooms along your highways, say every 5,000 blocks, with a row of command blocks around the walls and a destination pad in the center.
There are multiple solutions to each and every "problem" you have presented here, it's not suddenly a matter the developers need to address simply because you don't like or feel comfortable learning how to utilize them. It would take a fraction of the time for you to step outside your comfort zone and do these things rather than expecting the current working staff to tailor the gameplay to your liking.
Furthermore, the initial staff/team did visit and grace the early iteration of this forum - way back before it changed hands multiple times, way back in the early Alpha days, and they were inundated with suggestions, gripes, and kudos out the wazoo back then. Countless millions of sales later, it's not even realistic for them to publicly show their "face" in any place without being swamped with gibberish, let alone read and respond to any issue addressed to them.
TL;DR - There are ways to do what you are wanting to do, and from your post, you seem to already know about at least a few of them. It's not prudent to whine that they further develop the game to your specific likely. That's what mods and even many of the already in-game items are for.
well most of these things you asked are either already added or cannot really be done:
1) after you fight the ender dragon, you can find wings that let you fly between laces (Elytra) or you can make a flying machine using pistons and slime blocks(this option is more complicated)
2) you can make paths out of packed ice and drive a boat on them to go super fast, or just simply use a horse.
3) minecraft worlds are EXTREMELY LARGE (60,000 kilometers by 60,000 kilometers) so making rivers across the whole world wold be a pain for the world generator
4) this completely ruins the survival aspect of the game, and make it unbalanced and easy.
Have been playing Minecraft for many years now and have created different houses in many different lands across one single seed/world.
I have given up on slaying the Ender Dragon (it's too hard) but somehow the game still excites me enough to keep playing it.
To travel to new Biomes I build cobblestone highways across the sky. (and I have spanned thousands of kms).
For the first 6 years, a jungle could not be found anywhere in my world but recently my daughter discovered a way to find one!
I have now discovered and built the longest path to this biome from my original home (where my enchantment engine is).
It now takes me two (Minecraft) days to travel between these biomes/locations.
Can someone suggest a faster way to get between these locations, I am not building another enchantment contraption.
Developers;
1) can you kindly introduce a way to fly between locations in survival?
2) can you introduce better forms of travel, railways take too long to build.
3) I would like to see Rivers in Minecraft that flow from one end of My world to the other (or several rivers that can get you there).
4) portal travel devices that can be set up anywhere to travel anywhere (not really wanting to use the Nether, that's and evil place)
5) I would like Mojang/developers of Minecraft to be more accessible to nuts like me that could enhance their existence :-)
Cheers
L
4) I would suggest setting up a system of button operated command blocks to teleport you.
To do this safely in survival would require traveling to a new location first to find/set up a safe destination area.
(So you don't end up inside rock, way up in the air or in lava.)
You could, for instance, build teleportation rooms along your highways, say every 5,000 blocks, with a row of command blocks around the walls and a destination pad in the center.
Just testing.
There are multiple solutions to each and every "problem" you have presented here, it's not suddenly a matter the developers need to address simply because you don't like or feel comfortable learning how to utilize them. It would take a fraction of the time for you to step outside your comfort zone and do these things rather than expecting the current working staff to tailor the gameplay to your liking.
Furthermore, the initial staff/team did visit and grace the early iteration of this forum - way back before it changed hands multiple times, way back in the early Alpha days, and they were inundated with suggestions, gripes, and kudos out the wazoo back then. Countless millions of sales later, it's not even realistic for them to publicly show their "face" in any place without being swamped with gibberish, let alone read and respond to any issue addressed to them.
TL;DR - There are ways to do what you are wanting to do, and from your post, you seem to already know about at least a few of them. It's not prudent to whine that they further develop the game to your specific likely. That's what mods and even many of the already in-game items are for.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/survival-mode/2372609-journal-the-ballad-of-dirtdog
well most of these things you asked are either already added or cannot really be done:
1) after you fight the ender dragon, you can find wings that let you fly between laces (Elytra) or you can make a flying machine using pistons and slime blocks(this option is more complicated)
2) you can make paths out of packed ice and drive a boat on them to go super fast, or just simply use a horse.
3) minecraft worlds are EXTREMELY LARGE (60,000 kilometers by 60,000 kilometers) so making rivers across the whole world wold be a pain for the world generator
4) this completely ruins the survival aspect of the game, and make it unbalanced and easy.
5) im not sure what you mean by this, but if you want the developers to hear your suggestions then go to https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us