This is an extremely simplistic view that misunderstands the situation. For one, those people working on Wayland made enormous contributions to the X Server lo

This is an extremely simplistic view that misunderstands the situation. For one, those people working on Wayland made enormous contributions to the X Server long before Wayland existed. The creator of Wayland, Kristian Høgsberg did AIGLX, just to name one example.