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True, but the apps that cause the most complaints about features that Wayland lacks (Discord for this one) are usually among the fastest to enable the portals once they're available.
Not sure if Discord is the best example here, as it didn't support the screen capture portal for a very long time.
Discord didn't take very long to add it at all, what took a long time was fixing audio streaming.
Umm yes, they did take ages to support it. It took like 7 years...
tbf, Wayland was hardly relevant for some of that. the first feature request I found was 4 years go. implementing it also required upgrading electron a few versions, so a decent bit of work.