My biggest complaint of 1.9

I just wasted over an hour xp grinding trying to get to level 30. At level 29, I was still out killing monsters when a creeper approached. I had full health, iron armor, and a diamond sword. I hit him once, backed away and went in for the final 2 hits to kill him. One hit lands, the next hits a patch of tall grass. At this point I was screwed because due to the cooldown of swords, i couldn't possibly land another strike before he exploded and ultimately killed me.

You want to add a cooldown on attacking? Great. I like the feature actually. But please prevent random items from taking up hit boxes with a sword because it honestly ruins the fun of monster hunting in plains biomes. I don't think I'm the first to complain about this but please remove swords ability to break tall grass.