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He describes the motivation in the README here: https://github.com/tombh/texttop#why

Looks like the goal is to be able to view modern websites over poor internet connections using mosh. (And also probably a lot of fun to implement/see working)

> sometimes I don't have very good Internet. If all I have is a 3kbps connection

I don't think X would handle that very well, and you may not have an X server at the other side.

3 kbps is not enough for smooth TTY text-only ssh either...

That's where `mosh` comes in.

I've done pretty productive work over much tighter links than that. Think 300bps.

One of the systems I'm responsible for currently can only be reached over a 1200bps dialup connection.

But does this work require full refreshes of 80x24 screen or larger?

With wayland this would be a dead end

Why ?

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8

ssh -Y is insecure, unless you completely trust the SSH server.