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Well, there are better reasons for getting rid of fossil software... Like xorg being a giant clusterhack :)
Still not convinced Wayland won't end up the side-line fossil to be perfectly frank. It just isn't compatible enough considering how long it has been developed and the "every compositor needs to essentially implement the whole protocol itself" model seems like a huge design flaw.
It's amazing that wayland have been developed for so long (even though work on the desktop ecosystem is more recent) and this misconception still exists, lemmy need to try to do something to solve Brandolini's law .
Well, it would certainly help if you explained in what way that is a misconception. I mean obviously they can share part of the implementation via libraries but where else do you see that as a misconception?
Because X11 works the EXACT SAME WAY
This is also how X11 works if you choose not to use x.org... wayland is a protocol, the equivalent you're looking for is wlroots.
If you use wlroots, you don't have to do any of that.
As for why kde/wlroots/gnome are separate... x.org used to have multiple implementations too, until one took over and became used everywhere. Wlroots is the equivalent to x.org, and shares many implementation details with kde, gnome is the only odd one out, and both kde and gnomes implementations only exist because they came before wlroots.