flaming hot take, No fire texture packs are close to cheating.
I'm currently having a friend coach me on SMP. And a consistency we have found is that whoever has a no fire texture pack on will probably win or get a higher damage output. This seems like a huge advantage since without no fire you ban not see half the screen. With no fire you get rid of this problem. Consistently if one person had no fire and the other didn't, It would be different
If I (HT5 estimation) had no fire and he had no fire I deal around 4-6 hearts more damage consistently, From an average 10 HP on my friend to 6-4. (He is HT3-LT3ish), and if he has fire and I have no fire he either dies and I squeeze by with half a health point left or he wins and is a one tap at the end of the fight
Seems like an insane advantage to not be called "cheating" if my damage output can be severely boosted by no fire and my friend's gameplay severely nerfed without it, to the point where it can straight up turn a fight from floorwipe to small challenge, And from small challenge to extremely close fight consistently.