Updated my 1.19 world to 1.21.5 regenerated the chunks with /db prune and the drifters are dropping loot differently. Previously all enemies needed to be skinned to allow loot to be picked up, now they "panic" drop loot on the ground before death some of the time and also don't require the skinning animation/delay to open the loot box. Not all enemies are like this some still behave exactly like before the update.
Is this normal or a bug?
Thank you.
Edited for clarity.