What X needed was to slim down. That's something I can get behind. But the Wayland folks went too far, and the rationale seems to have been "because this is our

What X needed was to slim down. That's something I can get behind. But the Wayland folks went too far, and the rationale seems to have been "because this is our first real opportunity to break from X"... in other words, because they could. What we needed was an X12, not something different for the sake of being different: evolution, not revolution.