You’re not the only one to express this sentiment; a lot of people grappling with the discontinuities in the X11 to Wayland migration (and the gnome 2 to gnome

You’re not the only one to express this sentiment; a lot of people grappling with the discontinuities in the X11 to Wayland migration (and the gnome 2 to gnome 3 to gnome 4) have been saying the same thing. And that’s just for cases where the same developers have decided to move on to a new approach and the community has begrudgingly agreed to march along.