It's not like Red Hat planned and schemed to execute on Wayland as a plan for domination, but their decision to support Wayland as an existing project with tech

It's not like Red Hat planned and schemed to execute on Wayland as a plan for domination, but their decision to support Wayland as an existing project with technical merit staffed by skilled people might well have been tactical for the reason you mention. Some people tend to imagine the first situation and rightly dismiss it as a post facto conspiration but the second situation is utterly realistic. They may even not have realized until much later how right they got. And I say that as someone who is convinced we need something like Wayland, the sooner the better. But we also have to avoid being naive about how business is done.