I think the short story is that the people who develop Wayland are the people who used to develop Xorg.
And they’d rather spend their energy on giving you a compelling reason to switch, rather than using it to add to the reasons for staying on a project they now consider obsolete.
You may disagree with their assessment, but you can’t blame them for how they decide to prioritize.
I don’t think that is necessarily true. Most of the work goes way back (1984), done by people who have been retired for a long time now. Then in the late ‘00s redhat’s x11 maintainers (i.e. young people who were hired to fix bugs, not original developers) intimated that with DRI/DRM, x11 had become mostly obsolete, and that they needed to start over, so we got wayland. All I would add to that is that if they were correct, rather than conjuring an excuse to write their own thing, everyone would have jumped to wayland over a decade ago, but here we are, 17 years later, the benchmarks are still weak, and people are still squabbling. seems more like JWZ’s CADT than anything else.
And they’d rather spend their energy on giving you a compelling reason to switch, rather than using it to add to the reasons for staying on a project they now consider obsolete.
You may disagree with their assessment, but you can’t blame them for how they decide to prioritize.