Wayland as a protocol may be designed to be stutter-free, but the gnome compositor is very clearly not designed to be that. For example, it will happily request

Wayland as a protocol may be designed to be stutter-free, but the gnome compositor is very clearly not designed to be that. For example, it will happily request new frames or send new configuration events despite already being behind in processing what the client has produced so far. Which likely will make it fall even further behind, creating a bad circle.