Next, it was accessibility APIs and I guess copy paste is still flaky.
Now, it’s window managers.
What’s next, Remote Desktop?
The whole reason given for wayland’s replacement of x11 was that those things are all fundamentally bad ideas.
It’s been 15 years. Linux desktops are more fragmented than ever, and they’re still going forward with mass deletion of legacy x11 applications.
The only benefits to end users are things like HDR, or backporting a compositor feature or two, which X11 could easily be extended to support.
Instead we get two decades of the digital equivalent of book burning for reasons no one understands.
And variable refresh rate, better fractional scaling (and per-monitor scaling), atomic updates, native touch & gestures. And the isolation/sandboxing is important. The problem is Wayland didn't have portals in the beginning (hence the screenshot issue).
Wayland isn't the problem. The pace at which distros (and GNOME, lets be real who is behind the push here) started stripping out X11 was too fast, and too early.
X11 was resolution-agnostic from the start, but the ‘desktop Linux’ crowd were so focused on imitating Windows that they ignored Unix lessons and made fixed-resolution toolkits like Windows'.
> for reasons no one understands
Reasons are sadly typical for FOSS: from the start the devs were focused on their favorite use cases with no communication with end users to figure out theirs.