I agree that rewriting things needlessly is bad. However I actually think the folks working on this knew exactly what they were doing and actually made a reason

I agree that rewriting things needlessly is bad. However I actually think the folks working on this knew exactly what they were doing and actually made a reasonable choice; they’re not rewriting Xorg, they’re making something completely and utterly foreign to what Xorg is. And I think it is justified regardless of whether Wayland ultimately succeeds or fails.