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X11 was designed for use as a remote session. Largely built for Unix, these Unix machines we largely accessed remotely. Local Machines were not as powerful as the mini computers of the time that would run the more heavy duty applications.

Honestly it really wasn't until SGI and NeXT did we see powerful mini computers on the desk running GUI applications in the 90s.

X11 is due for a replacement, but users just dont want to let go. Linux GUI based applications are still a small user base compared to the headless nature Linux normally gets used for.

For every 1 GNU GUI using Linux user, there are 100+ Linux installs that run completely headless. So the demand to move to Wayland is small.