I no longer run Linux on any machines I own, but grew up with booting slackware off of floppy disks. X works as you said for many use cases but also has some l

I no longer run Linux on any machines I own, but grew up with booting slackware off of floppy disks. X works as you said for many use cases but also has some limitations for other modern use cases. I guess the Wayland folks want to bring parity with other modern desktop systems such as OSX and Windows. None of this is going to be a reality unless there are folks contributing and hacking on the system. The Wayland folks are trying to get mindshare so that the hackers feel they are working on something significant and worthwhile - as opposed to just fixing some X bugs. As much as users just want to just get bug free software, hackers like to design and reinvent the wheel so they have something to cherish - especially when no one is paying for their work. Just my .02.