the last release was afaik I know just to get the majority of patches contributed out that had stagnated and to finally split xwayland out of the xserver releas

the last release was afaik I know just to get the majority of patches contributed out that had stagnated and to finally split xwayland out of the xserver release. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-21.1-Released https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-21.1-RC https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland... its dead, the maintainers have said its dead, all major distros have either moved or will be moving in the coming year. x11 as an api will limp along due to xwayland but that's about it. no amount of assertions will change that unless individuals/organizations step up to actual maintain it. as for rest of your statement ./shrug I've already been very clear on the fact they were already using a gnome only api incorrectly. the generic desktop portal api not being strictly ready in 2020 due to pipewire doesn't change the fact they had a perfectly reasonable api to use inside gnome and they decided not to and were burned.