Most of the bad parts that Keith Packards covers are about the pre-X11 days. But yeah, Wayland is developed more or less like X11 was developed after the mid '9

Most of the bad parts that Keith Packards covers are about the pre-X11 days. But yeah, Wayland is developed more or less like X11 was developed after the mid '90s or so. The difference is that there isn't much commercial involvement on the desktop side. SGI, DEC, HP, Sun, IBM, and later Red Hat & friends, sank quite some money into X's development, and a non-zero amount of that money ended up going into a particular implementation (XFree, later Xorg) and in developing desktop solutions on top of it. Most of that money stream is flowing towards other things than desktops now. Desktop Wayland development is largely a hobby effort (there are some exceptions, but nowhere near as many as in the heyday of X11, and not all of these efforts apply throughout the Wayland "universe"). That may eventually change as Xorg's maintenance will eventually stop, since no one really wants to do that anymore...