Nothing I have said is inconsistent, and I haven't said that the resulting implementation is bad although I disagree it's outside the realm of a display manager

Nothing I have said is inconsistent, and I haven't said that the resulting implementation is bad although I disagree it's outside the realm of a display manager whan all of them had to implement an API to get it to work. The only thing I have said is that Wayland has not, and will not implement an API to their specification. Everyone has implemented their own one due to the lack of directionn and then Pipewire did the presentation API. It could have been a lot tidier if Wayland had actually accepted that they are the display server and that Pipewire will want an API to capture the display. Pipewire is the correct output as it captures both audio and visual and can do manipulation of the output as required, but the display server feeds the visual output.