[Falell]

This has been discussed in comments of Wayland threads on HN for years. People who want to keep using X complain that they still use it, someone replies "All the X maintainers have moved onto Wayland because they think it's the path forward, if you want X to be maintained step up and do it" and it's not clear if anyone ever did.

[pyb]

For whatever reason, it's only in recent years that distros have switched to using Wayland by default. So it's a bit early to completely drop the former display system. But it would be expensive to keep it alive as well !

[ilyt]

It's annoying, X got to the level where it "just works" out of the box for me on my setup and now it's "well, fuck that, we got bored, let's go Wayland!"

And some design decisions are.... iffy at best. Like the fact now every DM have to implement its own mouse(trackpad etc.) management coz "well we don't wanna" (basically, I'm sure Wayland developers have better articulated response to why everyone else involved have to duplicate the code).

Or how many hoops software have to jump just to record screen (or is that fixed now?)