I agree very much with your point on the whole "no real innovative additions" and that the developers have added so many stuff features that nobody will find an use for. When the game was in alpha and there were no "snow golems" and other stupid ass gulums that will just be a waste of your time the game was actually good. The devs had a lot of new and usable features to add in the game. Then it went beta and they started adding capes and stuff and golems, iron pots, potion system which was a piece of useless stuff. I don't find any real enjoyment from this game anymore. The multiplayer at least has some fun to it when you are communicating with actual people and not just some blocky villagers who just go "gimme tree fiddy emeralds and you get a block of wood".
The alchemy system isn't useless. You probably think it is because you've never used it. Your trading representation is horribly flawed. and the other features are being used and enjoyed.
Millions apon millions of people seem to disagree with you guy's "stuffty useless features that dont fit! Waaaah the game sucks now."
I'm not being a fanboy i'm telling you that your opinion is flawed and needs to be fixed.