Another way to look at these figures is that in a few years a Wayland successor is due, born out of the same motivation as Wayland ie. lack of people with a des

Another way to look at these figures is that in a few years a Wayland successor is due, born out of the same motivation as Wayland ie. lack of people with a desire to maintain legacy software. My expectation is that browser frontend stacks will eat the desktop completely at that point; it's not like there weren't many new desktop apps on Linux anyway.