To be honest, X hasn't been network transparent for the better part decade. Sure you can cut it back down to the point that it is, but the moment you want anyth

To be honest, X hasn't been network transparent for the better part decade. Sure you can cut it back down to the point that it is, but the moment you want anything accelerated, no more network transparency. In my mind, the best possible way to go about replacing X is making something that suits the way computers work today and the way computers are trending. That's why I really like Wayland. The entire point is to optimize for the local experience and anything beyond that is candy. It's designed for accelerated graphics first, which is what most client side users are going to have. It's even more important from a laptop perspective because of just how much more efficient the GPU is at rendering graphics. As an aside, another great thing is that most the new features of linux and it's graphics stack that were created (at least in part) for Wayland are able to function completely outside of that environment. KMS, DRM, using full OpenGL or Vulkan without a display server, etc.