Distance of seeing blocks in previous version is by blocks

Version 1.19.2 (version that I'm playing on), block view distance is now by chunk (X and Y axis) limited by selected distance but no limitations to Z axis either positive or negative. What changed?

Before, I can reach 256? block distance and now it only reaches 15

Samde for me, I can only reach 15 D:

There was never a limit to Z height

a good feature is to have distance as a spherical
is hard to view actualy