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That captures it neatly. It remains the future, even though the dawn of the new day has been extremely slow. There was an amazing decade watching the Wayland community struggling with screenshots as a major engineering challenge. They tried to half-bake critical parts of the problem space and it led to a dead-on-arrival protocol that took a decade to be Frankensteined to life.

I get that Xorg is terrible, but Wayland has been around for 15 years at this point (the article's "Unless your workflow (and hardware) comes from 20+ years ago" jab falls a bit flat). It is closer to the X.org server's release than to the modern era. There were good people with big ambitions involved, but the Wayland protocol is an example of a mis-design that had to be made to work despite itself.