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Yeah, the Prism launcher, when you don't have a account connected, asks you if you want to download the demo version instead.
I never realized they had a free trial version of Minecraft Java Edition. That is probably when they unlocked the ability to download the library files without an account.
It would make sense if the demo version is using the free trial that it would be the full game just in a restricted area. I had always thought that when they said demo, they had meant like the old demo that Mojang had had prior to the 1.0 release. But if it's the free trial, that makes so much more sense.
edit: Looking into it further, it seems like they have three separate demo programs, there's the demo that I was talking about, that was like the 1.0 original version that used to be able to find on the Minecraft website, but they've since then added a demo mode that gives you a forced world seed and restricted things that you can do, and on top of that they also have a free trial mode now that unlocks a little bit of the the restrictions but removes items from the game.
I didn't know they provided so many ways that you could try Minecraft before buying it.