RHEL itself is deprecated for desktop/workstation use. I last used RHEL in that capacity 10 years ago and even then it was apparent that this was a niche it wasn't well suited for.
The target audience for RHEL desktop/workstation use is government employees. Those people are not supposed to use the computer beyond a narrow scope of tasks. Creativity, self-responsibility, individuality and out-of-the-box thinking is discouraged. Wayland is perfectly suited for that.
Will this affect Fedora or other red hat universe distros?
It wouldn't really surprise me if Fedora followed suite soon, but I have no specific information about that. Hopefully OpenSUSE Tumbleweed keeps X, I haven't heard any indication to the contrary.
I'm not entirely sure, but I'm under the impression that my tumbleweed installation lost X11 months ago and is Wayland only now.
X is still in Tumbleweed, maybe it's not the default anymore but it's still here.
Fedora defaulted to Wayland quite a while ago. But Fedora doesn’t necessarily always follow Red Hat. RHEL deprecated and removed btrfs support, while Fedora now uses it by default.
> RHEL deprecated and removed btrfs support
Wait, what?? Is that true?
yes, had to stop using CentOS and switch to Debian for my servers because of that