1. You're conflating X and Xorg. 2. Network transparency is still there and I use it everyday. The problem is toolkits (GTK and others) who decided it would be

1. You're conflating X and Xorg. 2. Network transparency is still there and I use it everyday. The problem is toolkits (GTK and others) who decided it would be 'simpler' to redo everything themselves in a canvas. Of course the result of not taking advantages of X primitives was a massive slowdown over the network. 3. Wayland sits at an odd place, not having the advantages of being a proper protocol in the sense of X (complete abstraction from the substrate), while at the same time not having the advantages of being a direct API to hardware (simplicity, performance).