It would be amazing to be able to control the top speed achievable flying with wings, thanks!

Notably this would allow servers to make wings available earlier in the game's progression without disturbing everything too much (elytra speed is incredibly fast), and without reducing the overall acceleration of wings which can make them unable to gain air time at all.

this is already the case, actually. wings_speed is the config option name. the issue isnt acceleration, but rather gravity being too great to overcome with values too low

Actually, what I'm requesting is something different (albeit parallel) to the wings_speed option.

While that setting does indeed adjust the speed at which you can move forward, it doesn't do anything to limit the maximum speed achieved with acceleration and flight in general, which with vanilla elytras (and by extension Icarus wings) can be too fast at times.

I have actually tested this quite extensively as we utilised a mod in 1.20 to limit the elytra speed to 15% of its default value, with great success.
Sadly however, the mod we did that with was abandoned (and actually required code from myself to get working at all), so I would love to see the mechanic brought into this mod where I think it would be a huge boon, especially if it could be adjusted per wing type.

With that said, it would be greatly appreciated if you could reconsider this request, thank you!

ahh okay, i see what you mean. im not sure how easy it'll be do to, but i can definitely look into it