I'm curious as to why you consider release 1.0-1.7.10 to be in the same category (as your title says "Beta Vs Official Release 1.0 - 1.7.10 Vs The latest Versions"). There's a big difference between release 1.6.4 and 1.7+, mainly changes to world generation (at this point Mojang started emphasizing long-distance exploration to find incredibly rare features, so rare that they later added special maps to help find some of them. They also made "Minecraft" less about mining when you consider the changes they made to the underground).
I consider this to be a major turning point in the game's history - considering that I haven't actually played on any version past 1.6.4 (in fact, I haven't even touched any release since 1.13, which I only played to verify changes to cave generation, which comes up with nearly every release, though in this case they actually did change, if simply due to a change in how the RNG is used, unlike the changes in 1.7). Otherwise, I have basically no opinion of later versions since they may as well be an entirely different game (over on Reddit I recently got into an argument with somebody who kept trying to convince me to play the latest vanilla version, even Bedrock over Java, despite clearly stating with multiple pieces of evidence why I had absolutely no interest in it. They then claimed that what I played wasn't even Minecraft).