[cbm-vic-20]

I don't think network transparency is a goal for Wayland. X11 network transparency was awesome in the late 80s and early 90s. In many universities, there would be rooms of X11 terminals that connected to the "big machines" in the server rooms- and you could have each of your applications, even even the window manager itself, all being run on different machines.

This made sense when an institution would license software for their big iron, and when desktop computers weren't nearly as powerful as they eventually became during the 90s.

But most people gave up on it right around the time that Netscape Navigator, with its very bitmap-heavy UI gained traction. The X protocol really wasn't designed around this. Extensions helped, but not enough.

I bet the vast majority of people using X11 today have never run a remote X11 client.