It's understandable that people who aren't having problems aren't vocal; people don't usually go out of their way to say "everything's working fine, no issues".

It's understandable that people who aren't having problems aren't vocal; people don't usually go out of their way to say "everything's working fine, no issues". Wayland works for the vast majority of people, and it's improving steadily. One of the main differences that leads people to complain is that in X, there wasn't any security between applications, and anyone could write a quick hack that makes things work for them (e.g. watch the keyboard for a key globally, or mirror the display remotely). In Wayland, there's no escape hatch: either the desktop environment needs to handle something, or you need to add a protocol for it. People experiment with new protocols all the time, but the Wayland project itself is (by design) slow and careful about adopting extensions. It is understandable to wish for simpler times. But retrocomputing isn't a path forward here.