In the new 1.18 terrain generation, rivers are much wider than in the old generation. When this is combined with the 16x size of biomes in a "large biomes" world, rivers no longer look like rivers and look more like huge lakes... This wouldn't be a problem if rivers in Large Biomes were separated by thousands of blocks, but they pop up every few hundreds of blocks, making the world look like a map of Finland riddled with lakes everywhere.

This even spoils the feeling in arid biomes like mesas, which no longer feel like desertic inland biomes because every few blocks you stumble upon another huge river.

Please consider that people who like playing on large biomes love the sense of increased immersion in a particular biome, but want to preserve the feeling that rivers still look like rivers and not like enormous lakes sprinkling the world everywhere.

Maybe in Large Biomes rivers shouldn't be scaled 4x along the X and Z axis.

World Type: Large biomes

Seed: 3302723756429769076

Coords: x:-5341 y:150 z:566