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Why do you think Wayland is vaporware? The concept, protocol, reference implementations are clear, done, the development of protocol extensions are chugging along nicely, and clients are shedding their legacy layers year-by-year (release-by-release). It was never going to be a quick and dirty hack.

Sure, you can use XWayland and just call it a day, but that doesn't really help.

The reality is that exactly due to the enormous legacy baggage of the "X ecosystem" it's not easy to just switch "to Wayland". GTK, Qt, and (again, due to the required hacks) all major apps (eg. Firefox) have to do serious work (as in finally implement something sane, now that it's an option) to work.

DBus is okay. Though bus1 might be an improvement, and having it in kernel would be a bit more efficient (zero copy, better security, etc).