Your prediction is probably right but it highlights what I still find to be a fundamental problem with Wayland. It's something that's very much user-facing, as

Your prediction is probably right but it highlights what I still find to be a fundamental problem with Wayland. It's something that's very much user-facing, as it affects the behavior of desktop environments and several types of programs. It's also something that developers want because they don't want to write X applications or maintain Xorg itself. The disconnect is developers want Wayland to replace X ASAP, while users want a smooth experience where nothing breaks due to it being Wayland, which is a high bar. For me, Wayland remains one of the least favorite technologies I've dealt with. As a developer, I needed to port a custom Linux system to hardware that only has Wayland drivers and it was a giant pain. Wayland offers no advantage at all for that system but it broke a lot of functionality that relied on X in terms of window placement, etc. Took weeks of work to get a more complicated system that does 90% of what the previous one did, while still missing a few convenient features. As a user, I try Wayland once in a while on one of my computers. It's improving - or more precisely, it's not Wayland itself but rather Wayland support of other software, like KDE. Earlier this year I finally worked under KDE/Wayland for a couple days with no issues, but then I again ran into some weirdness when using Unity so once again back to Xorg. What really makes Wayland hard to daily drive for me is that I have zero issues with Xorg. I don't use the things X can't do at all (fractional scaling is one I think?) so the bar for Wayland as a daily driver is admittedly a very high one, it needs to be completely free of issues because Xorg already does everything for me and Wayland's advantages are for the devs, not for me as a desktop user. It also feels like it's improving slower than anything else has. Printing on Linux used to be a pain but now it works well. Wifi on Linux was hard to get working at some point but now it just works. Sensationally, gaming on Linux has become as easy as it is on Windows. Wayland protocols hit 1.0 in 2015 and now nine years later, it's approaching usability.