Having Whitelisted a specific group of players, I know full well nothing has changed with their Minecraft clients. This is an issue that is directly because of how the "Realm" functions. There are a lack of admin commands in Realms and I am unable to fix some of the issues that are on by default on the Realms server.

$13 a month for lackluster support, lackluster code, lackluster control. Why shouldn't I just go to a different service that does things better for less?