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> [... WordPress bad ...] Xorg [...] has over 30 plugins on a normal desktop.

This isn't a great argument. Python has "plugins" and just calls them "C extensions". Every time someone uses Numpy, Matplotlib, Pandas, or even just "math" - that's a plugin.

Gimp has plugins. Emacs has plugins. VLC has plugins.

> The technical debt of Xorg is almost like if Linux never supported anything but x86 and used emulators for all other hardware.

It's not like that at all.

I can believe that WordPress is a bunch of gross PHP, and I can believe that nobody wants to maintain the C in Xorg, but that's about as far as your analogy holds.

And besides, Wayland is just going to package all that stuff you hate into XWayland. It's not like anyone is cleaning up the interface and removing the notion of plugins.