Possibly the part of the problem is, that there is no single owner and no one directs it. Everything seems chaotic, many things are low priority for developers,

Possibly the part of the problem is, that there is no single owner and no one directs it. Everything seems chaotic, many things are low priority for developers, while in practice they are high priority for users and so on. I suppose that's the natural consequence of Linux desktop stack being developed so collaboratively. And the fact that desktop itself is so fragmented (KDE, Gnome, etc.) doesn't help either. Resources are spread quite thin. The major problem with Wayland is, that unlike X which is a unified point of collaboration, Wayland compositors need to do all the work on their own (unless they figure out how to share the effort, which doesn't go too well so far). So problems of fragmentation and lack of resources are only amplified in Wayland case, causing a huge delay in overall progress. And I'm not saying all the above is a bad thing (some argue choices are good and etc.). But the downsides are obvious. Personally, I'd prefer developers focusing more on KDE, but Gnome users would likely disagree.