This is mostly going to be copied from my comment in another post, so if this seems familiar then that's why. I've been thinking of posting this for a while but felt like it'd come off strangely, but I'm just tired of repeatedly seeing the "phase out Java Edition" phrase.

1. Mojang's development team for the Java Edition has basically doubled in the past year.
2. They're redoing huge parts of the Java Edition engine to make it more extensible for long-term development (the crafting engine, structures, loot tables, the beginning of an event system like PE's API). Why would they do this if it was going to be phased out?
3. The Java Edition is still the primary version for new features (this is important).
4. MS/Mojang hasn't said in a long time that it is their intention to phase out the Java Edition, and in fact have blatantly said the complete opposite (Remember Logdotzip's interview with MS employees at Bellevue where they specifically said that the Java Edition will continue to receive updates and be compatible with Forge even after feature parity is reached?)

This viewpoint honestly needs to be smothered and die. Java Edition is without a doubt going nowhere, at least not for years to come. If anything ever happens to it, it wouldn't be anything that we could predict given the information we currently have available, which means anything said about it being phased out is purely random speculation that really should be avoided as not to further spread this mentality that plagues the community.