[hakfoo]

Wayland had the same odor a failed state has.

It's a huge hairball with no easy fixes, but at the same time, that's of significant benefit to some specific players. You can have a very usable X11 desktop with positively pre-Cambrian software. But to keep up with Wayland's ever evolving omnishambles, you basically have to run KDE or GNOME, or maybe Sway.

[ahartmetz]

That is not what the protocol is like at all. Wayland can't do certain things not because they are difficult to do, but because Wayland was initially pathologically minimalist (I say that as somebody who generally likes minimalism) and the approval process for extensions has only improved slowly over time. It turns out that there's much more than blitting rectangles to a (single) screen and routing input events to a desktop environment.

If all the expected stuff was there, Sway (chosen because it's not tied to a desktop environmen) could be your X server equivalent.