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AFAIK Wayland support is in the pipeline
Yeah maybe it'll be ready by 2030 lol. I don't know why XFCE development is so incredibly slow
Gnome has at least some payed developers at IBM / Ubuntu. (unless IBM/Red Hat fired them, yet?)
KDE has a big community, and there is some sponsoring happening from Valve (!).
Xfce, to the best of my knowledge, has no full time developer.