I don't know a lot about the graphical stack, window servers, etc. All of my professional work has been on systems with no graphical components. I am trying to

I don't know a lot about the graphical stack, window servers, etc. All of my professional work has been on systems with no graphical components. I am trying to understand what you are pointing out. Is it that there is no separate "Wayland service" in the way that there is an Xorg service? That Wayland is just a protocol? Is using Mutter as a Wayland display server not "GNOME on Wayland," even if there is no separate service running?