Re: Still?
> The Wayland people are the Xorg people
This seems to me to be very disingenuous.
The Wayland people are, AFAICT, a bunch of mainly Red Hat developers who were _maintaining_ X.org in recent years. This does not mean that they designed it or built it, and with the typical Linux tunnel vision, it is frequently forgotten that X.org is very far from the only X11 server, even on Linux.
X.org started out as a fork of XFree86. OpenBSD has Xenocara. NetBSD and FreeBSD have their own independent downstream forks of X.org. Every one of the dozens of proprietary UNIXes in the 1980s and 1990s had its own independent implementation, including Sun, Silicon Graphics, IBM, Apple, Commodore, Atari and Acorn, as well as dozens of implementations on DOS, Windows 3 – DEC bundled Hummingbird eXceed with the PATHWORKS client and I deployed that in production -- Windows 9x, Windows NT, OS/2, QNX, BeOS, Haiku, RISC OS, and I would not at all be surprised on AmigaOS and ST TOS or at least MINT.
X11 is one of the most widely-adopted industry standards there is. More very different computers running different OSes talk X11 than can read a .DOC file. There are probably more wildly different systems that can run an X server than can run some form of Vi or Emacs. More different CPU platforms from more vendors than have ever run all releases of DOS and Windows put together.
One bunch of guys landed with the job of maintaining the main FOSS Linux version got tired of it and decided to do their own thing.
Because of industry inertia, they have ended up owning the www.X.org website and being the people who run the standard, yes, but that's because proprietary paid Unix has collapsed and died. Nobody else bothered, the same as Mercedes and Audi and Ford don't cooperate on a website and a standards body for wheels.
OF COURSE they all have wheels. They all design and make and fix wheels, they work with tyre companies, but you don't tend to find excited press releases about the radical new invention from the biggest maker of... the wheel.
Wayland is not "the people who designed X11 decided to go in a new direction."
Wayland is "the people who maintain wheels at Ford have decided to try a new type of solid tyre."
Yes, there are advantages to solid tyres. But there also a lot of advantages to pneumatic tyres, which is why the whole world uses them, _despite of punctures happening_.
And they forgot that although they make more cars than anyone, as well as their tin boxes with solid metal car wheels, there are also trains -- no tyres at all -- and bicycles and trucks and aeroplanes and prams and skateboards and roller-blades. They all need wheels as an integral component, they're all different, and they all need different types of wheel, most but not all with some kind of tyre, and what this car maker is doing is totally irrelevant and unimportant to them.
Besides that, we're talking about one American manufacturer, and let's not forget VW here. (From a quick Google, the biggest car maker. I could be wrong. Only an example.)
In this context: we're talking about Red Hat, and it is outsold 10x over by Apple machines (with no X11 as stock) and Apple Macs are outsold 10x over by Chromebooks (no X11 as stock).
It is absolutely critical to consider the bigger picture.
Red Hat is loud because it is rich (and American), but there are 10x as many Debian users as Red Hat and all its variants. And all of Linux is a rounding error in the world market for general-purpose desktop/laptop xNix computers with a FOSS basis.
(Servers being largely irrelevant when it comes to Wayland.)