[immibis]

Wayland is not trying to do enough. You can send pixels to a compositor - great. It turns out a desktop is more than just pixels sent to a compositor. It turns out X11 has a lot of stuff because there is a lot of stuff to do. It could be simplified somewhat, producing incompatible X12, but not simply thrown away along with all the accumulated knowledge. It's literally the Joel Spolsky "never rewrite Netscape" effect in action. Wayland has now spent nearly a decade reaccumulating a part of the same knowledge that was already known, but worse.