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Graphics-stack developers have known that in order to keep pace with Windows and macOS, X needed to be replaced, since the 90s at the latest. The only question

Graphics-stack developers have known that in order to keep pace with Windows and macOS, X needed to be replaced, since the 90s at the latest. The only question was with what. The Xorg developers came up with a solution: Wayland. The hackers who wrote Xorg are in unanimous agreement that X is obsolete and you should be using Wayland instead. The next step, now ongoing, is to coordinate with DEs and distros to remove X support altogether. You should use Wayland because it's what's supported. It's what all future Linux graphical software will be ported to. In a few years, it'll be impossible to get an X version of even a recent web browser. The best time to abandon X was 30 years ago. The second best time is now.

saurik 1y ago
And yet, abandoning X for Wayland--not to start developing Wayland, but to actually stop using X and start using Wayland--is MUCH easier to do now than it was to do five years ago, despite all of the people (maybe including yourself) who were INSISTENT that you had to do it IMMEDIATELY or suffer some kind of consequence. This is a similar situation to the people who were all screaming that you had to ditch Python 2 to upgrade to Python 3 immediately after it came out, and that if you didn't you were somehow dumb, even though they finally started to fix all of the upgrade deficiencies and regressions only with something around Python 3.5: there's a time to upgrade, and that time is never immediately upon introduction.