Anybody ever noticed the “falling animation” where your hand slides upwards has been removed since 1.14 Pre-Release 2?

I recently made a mineshaft in my current survival world and it has a vertical tunnel that you freefall downwards to bedrock (with water of course). And I realized that the "falling animation" where your hand slides up the screen as you fall doesn't exist anymore.

After checking previous versions, I realized that it existed in 1.14 Pre-Release 1, but in 1.14 Pre-Release 2 it was gone. The change wasn't documented on the Minecraft Wiki either so it seems like nobody has really noticed?

Anybody know if it was removed for a specific reason? Accessibility maybe? Or maybe it's just a bug and nobody realized. Kind of like the damage-tilting animation being broken since early release and not being fixed until relatively recently.