This comes a year and a half after they resorted to disabling Wayland support

Yeah. A lot of progress has been made in the past year and a half. This is a clickbait headline. It's not like last week they were like "this is super broken... oh well shipping it anyway." It feels like pointing out their previous criticisms is almost trying to call them out as hypocritical or something.

It was previously broken. They said it was broken. And now it's fixed, and they re-enabled it as the default. There's no bigger story or drama around their previous comments.

That makes sense, it's been updated a lot since that previous statement.