Long time coming for this. I remember listening to a deep dive talk into how messed up X11 is by a Wayland engineer in like 2012, but a lot of it was talking about what Wayland could improve as there wasn't any DEs yet that worked on Wayland.
EDIT: Found the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQoQE_HDG8g
Long time coming for this. I remember listening to a deep dive talk into how messed up X11 is by a Wayland engineer in like 2012, but a lot of it was talking about what Wayland could improve as there wasn't any DEs yet that worked on Wayland.
EDIT: Found the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQoQE_HDG8g