Bedrock has much better performance so it was used for consoles, but there were already hundreds of thousands of mods for Java edition, thus the split.

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0x3444ac53 a day ago | parent [-]

Bedrock does have better performance but it is also hella buggy and unstable.

	▲	avarun 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And also it has worse performance than Java if you just install a basic optimization modpack like Adrenaline on Java, which many players do. There's effectively ~zero reason to use Bedrock if you're on PC.
	▲	LtdJorge a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes it is. The lack of mods was already a dealbreaker for me, though.