[shatteredgate]

I just saw your edit and I'll respond to it separately. I don't understand what you mean by "because of Red Hat". Maybe Fedora and RHEL are shipping libinput but other distros don't have to do that, it's their decision to use it and not default to synaptics. You could probably find one that doesn't use libinput, or you could ask your distro not to use libinput by default, but you may have limited success with that because of the other issues with the synaptics driver that weren't really ever fixed. It's an unfortunate decision that distro developers have to make and it's solely their decision, not Red Hat's.

Although it's not really a coincidence if they make a lot of the same decisions that Red Hat does as they also have to field the same type of bug reports in these components and generally they will make similar decisions focused around minimizing bugs, sometimes at the expense of no longer getting to say that they support a giant feature matrix. I'm using debian for example and I don't think there are any other efforts or desire from downstream to focus on fixing the long standing issues in these old xf86 drivers for hardware that a lot of distro developers may not even have access to so they can test their changes. Wishing libinput to go away isn't really an effective problem solving strategy as that won't solve any of the issues with the old drivers that caused them to get removed as the default.