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by destructionator 1924 days ago
> they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11.

That's not what they actually say though:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_5

"It's entirely possible to incorporate the buffer exchange and update models that Wayland is built on into X. "

Again, they literally say "It's entirely possible". They just didn't want to.