Your suspicion that something changed about bows is correct. Arrows start out as point projectiles and only expand to their usual collision size over something like 0.4 seconds. That change was done so you can (intentionally) shoot past nearby mobs.
Your suspicion that something changed about bows is correct. Arrows start out as point projectiles and only expand to their usual collision size over something like 0.4 seconds. That change was done so you can (intentionally) shoot past nearby mobs.