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Being the first major distro to force the adoption of new technologies is kinda Fedora's whole thing, so it's not really surprising. It's annoying for people on Fedora who use features Wayland doesn't have yet, but they can jump through a few hoops to get X11 back, or better yet switch to a distro that cares more about giving users options than they do about beta testing new technologies for their corporate overlords.
Still, somebody has be first, and it's past time to get serious about this whole transition, so I can hardly try to claim this is a bad thing.
Fedora is life