[yjftsjthsd-h]

> That's because of how heavily all modern X11 toolkits and clients now depend on a plethora of X11 extensions and their XLib-based libraries

Then Wayland will be more a nightmare still, since they moved everything but core rendering into extensions and say "just use wlroots" to deal with it.

[md8z]

No, you have it mixed up. Wlroots is on the server, the Xlib problem is explicitly with client libraries.