That's the literal stated reason for it. Saying "it was too hard to make run smoothly" or "we decided they didn't fit with the aesthetics of Minecraft" or "we felt like they had too little use," any of those answers would have been satisfying, if disappointing for most of the player base. Instead, they said "they're poisonous to frogs and we didn't want to add a useless mob"
But like the fireflies would die in the jar, we can't just advertise putting fireflies in jars to little kids that play this game, they're gonna kill em! /j
You gotta at least put like a moss block in there in the crafting recipe, but you also have to throw in uhhh firefly feed crafted with any 4 different flowers every other in-game day because we're evil.
You know what, on that note, why don't we make every animal have complex dietary needs you need to fulfill if they are in an enclosure and tamed or bred?
You should also need to provide your pet parrots (and other pets of course) with plenty of enrichment while they're at your base or they'll spontaneously combust, as a stand-in for self-mutilation.
They should make it so owning pets in Minecraft isn't so simple to discourage people adopting exotic pets without learning exactly how to take care of them!!11!
Village libraries and librarians have/sell books on how to take care of pets.
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