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Why learn about wayland and figure out how to fix things (and then probably have gnome developers never ever accept your fix) when you can just switch to Xorg in 3 seconds?

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There are good reasons to switch to Wayland. Features, security Standards and it being in active development are some of them.

Of course no one has to use / switch to anything, but reaching a critical mass of users would be helpful in the long term.

You CAN use multiple sub-instances of Xorg for security… Nobody does it but firejail supports it.

Because nobody maintains Xorg anymore. Wayland was started because the Xorg developers thought Xorg had come to the end of the road and was unfixable. You can think of Wayland as X12, except without copyright/trademark concerns.

> Because nobody maintains Xorg anymore

Latest release in June… https://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/

Doesn't seem extremely abandoned.

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