That doesn't make sense. At the time, Wayland was more ready than a project written from scratch. Their initial manifesto also called out a bunch of things as f

That doesn't make sense. At the time, Wayland was more ready than a project written from scratch. Their initial manifesto also called out a bunch of things as failings of Wayland that were patently false. The Wayland core devs also did not know that Ubuntu was having these issues, IIRC. So either: 1) Ubuntu didn't understand Wayland at all, amd decided to write their own from scratch without talking to or consulting the Wayland devs. Or 2) Ubuntu has an ulterior motive (e.g. Not-Invented-Here-syndrome).