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X forwarding should work under XWayland.
There's also interesting (in development) projects such as Arcan one may want to check out.
Wayland may not be the 1:1 "X12" implementation you hoped for, unfortunately that was never going to happen to begin with. The amount of effort required to continue developing Xorg is simply too great.
There's countless people who talk about wanting to support it & contrabute but nobody actually wants to drive it forward. I understand your disappointment.
It needs a company and money behind it to make it happen. I expect as X11 gets further behind, if Wayland ends up not meeting the needs of enough corporate interests, something (probably not X12) will get made to address it.
Arcan looks interesting. It is a lot to ingest and think about.