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A completely new solution was inevitable because there was nothing more that could be done with Xorg. All of the complexity that mattered had moved into the WM,

• quotemstr 6y ago
  > A completely new solution was inevitable because there was nothing more that could be done with Xorg. I see no evidence behind this assertion. What specifically would have prevented the further evolution of Xorg? > All of the complexity that mattered had moved into the WM, Compositor or Client. Good. So that means that Xorg didn't have to change very much. All Xorg had to do is provide mechanism, not policy, and let WM, compositor, and client cooperate as they've been doing for decades. But instead the Xorg maintainers got bored and decided to make a big ball of mud with no separation of concerns.