It seems to me like this was Wayland's fatal mistake, honestly. They left window management as an "exercise for the reader" (so to speak) because they didn't th

It seems to me like this was Wayland's fatal mistake, honestly. They left window management as an "exercise for the reader" (so to speak) because they didn't think that window management was a "serious" domain, and didn't understand how issues could arise from fragmentation there. So we traded the decades of cruft and fragmentation within the X11 spec for baked-in fragmentation at the DE level. I expect that we'll never reach a Mac-like utopia where you can set global keyboard shortcuts for window management (such as next/previous tab) at the OS level, and have it work across Wayland apps, because of this.