The MC Bedrock edition has the feature tick-view-distance, I wish this thing would be in Java Edition too without modding or custom servers. The guys from papermc actually implemented it in their software. Here's the commit https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/commit/878c66f116d983112497cab482765531acbcfaf6#diff-80eb6134ee5516ca3c2853ecedb90df3