Many of the people that maintain X are the same people working on Wayland implementations. They’re pushing people towards the new thing because it makes their lives easier, and that’s also the nature of engineer driven product development, it’s not going to consider all the edge cases underserved from replacing legacy software because there’s nobody to keep them in check.

Like all things with open source contribution, it’s limited to things being produced based on what freelancers are interested in. This is a double edged sword, when you use a distribution you are using the end result of what its community interest is.

It’s why there’s fragmentation and lots of issues with any form of standardization of a UI language that can appeal to the average person because it’s a mine field of complexity.

What?