[zenolijo]

> Even with things like wlroots, you have to invest a lot more work to get even the basics working that X11 will give you for free.

Like what?

A few years ago I copied the wlroots example, simplified it to less than 1000 LoC and then did some of my own modifications and additions like workspaces. And this side-project was done in less than a week on my spare time.