[sprash]

This is obviously wrong. The most capable X11 developers retired (like KP) and the least capable developers of the younger generation started Wayland.

[klooney]

Keith Packard was working on Wayland and XWayland...

[jdiff]

It's as the other commenter says. This is just a story you told yourself to justify your opinion after the fact. X11 is ancient and its sprawling patchwork codebase shows it.

[sprash]

Despite being ancient it's still better than Wayland. The "same developers" narrative is just a story you tell yourself to justify your opinion after the fact. Wayland is fundamentaly flawed on every level. Its sprawling patchwork of parallel infrastructure an duplicated effort shows it.

[jdiff]

This is the story the Wayland developers, including KP, are telling you. This isn't an ideological war, this is software history.