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Of course, but wayland is a solid design that's on the path towards being that. Development would probably go a lot faster if major distros shipped wayland by default. But because of nvidia, they can't.
There's a bit of a jump from "feature complete and still issuing maintenance releases" to "abandonware".
I'm just annoyed by the apparent assumption from people promoting messages like this that Wayland is ready for desktop use when it's not. It seems to give the impression that there aren't things that have to be fixed. Like how DPI in Firefox is broken, or how MS Teams and other screen sharing apps don't work.
I've wanted to adopt Wayland for years but still can't. Claims like the OP makes it sound as if devs are out of touch with the reality of their users and that's frustrating. If they abandon X and don't fix the problems with Wayland then I'm screwed.
These are all good points, but please note that I'm not contending whether Wayland can do anything about it. I'm saying it's misleading (and possibly detrimental) to imply that end users can replace x11 with Wayland. If you look beyond the individual projects, the ecosystem does not function as a complete desktop environment in the way that x11 does.