I guess the real story is that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will use X.org by default, rather than Wayland [1]. Canonical "pretending Mir never existed" is just click bait. Personally, I found Unity not half-bad, and am not looking forward to gnome-shell from what little I know, eg. for its wasteful menu-per-window attachment rather than Mac OS style global menus alone.

[1]: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/01/26/bionic-beaver-18-04-l...

Click-bait, precisely to illustrate a point. The real story comes after. Did you actually read it? It has nothing to do with which DE Ubuntu chooses to favour ATM.

What’s the point of this invective-laced polemic piece?

(That said, I get it. Hype is everything, whatever does not stink of the "latest tech trend" must be bad. Sad day to be a reader, indeed.)

Don’t know who voted you down but here’s a +1 to bump you back up a bit.

The time and resources spent on Mir have nothing to do with Wayland not being ready for production. It was wasted not doing other things at Canonical; who had, and still have, no obligation to make Wayland better.

(And complaining that nobody gets your article says more about you than them.)