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They could just drop Wayland support if it is too much work.
But wayland is actually getting development and security updates and every single X11 dev moved onto it... that's like saying we should drop electric cars for gas because there's more gas stations right now.
It is more like saying we should drop hydrogen cars because they are a fundamentally flawed concept.
Except you can't explain any fundamental flaws with wayland that don't also apply to X11.
We will drop electric cars because hydrogen cars are fundamentally superior.
Hydrogen ist a nightmare to store and transport and 90% of the ways it can be produced for the foreseeable future are very polluting.
That's just propaganda from BEV companies. They just saying that so people won't realize that hydrogen solves many of the problems of electric cars.