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I think you're missing that authors of tiling window managers don't actually want to go back to the X11 way of doing things. They don't want to write a basic window manager or a plugin. That abstraction boundary is bad and it's extremely limited. That's why the X Composite extension was created in the first place. There was a chance to go in the opposite direction with Wayland. People did actually make plugin APIs but they never became standard, few developers wanted to use them. Instead wlroots became popular because it allows a lot more power and flexibility over compositing. The compositing approach is what allows Hyprland to have those nice transparencies and animations. So it's not that I'm trying to be fair to Wayland, I'm actually trying to be fair to X11 compositors. You're skipping that whole step that happened in the mid-2000s when you make your comparison. People wanted to make compositors all along.