FWIW i played around with Xorg xserver code a while some time ago and i found it quite easy to grasp things in it... or at least not any more difficult than any

FWIW i played around with Xorg xserver code a while some time ago and i found it quite easy to grasp things in it... or at least not any more difficult than any other relatively large codebase i've worked with (though the X server doesn't really have a large codebase and the entire Xorg project is broken into multiple small libraries that make things easier to grasp). My guess why you do not see as many people working on Xorg is that... it generally works for the majority of people. Personally i'm 100% certain i could fix any issue i have with it, but i never really felt anything missing from Xorg, it works perfectly fine for what i'm doing with it.