You've got two primary use cases for nVidia's GPUs:

1. Gaming. Just about nobody games on Linux with nVidia. Most people I know who game (from Linux) with nVidia GPUs use PCI passthrough to a guest VM running Windows. Very few use nVidia GPUs on their host system. My primary setup is a 2950x/128GB DDR4/Vega 56/2080 Super -- the latter goes to kvm exclusively.

2. "Research" such as machine learning. You don't need Wayland or X11 for this, and the proprietary drivers work the best. To be honest, this is a space where Ubuntu Server performs best. I keep one of these around in a VM (see above) for this purpose. (Mining also goes in this category)

Everything else can probably be done with an Intel or AMD GPU tbh.

>>>1. Gaming. Just about nobody games on Linux with nVidia.

I guess I'm the oddball here. 95% of my gaming is native Steam Linux apps on my Kubuntu box with a GTX1060 6GB.

The GPU stats at https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi... disagree with your first point. A few years ago I did all of my gaming direct on Linux with an nVidia GPU, and did so for over a decade, on various laptops with and without mixed Intel/nVidia GPU setups.

There is nothing Wayland can do about "nvidia's crappy drivers".

GamingOnLinux stats — AMD GPU 40% and raising.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...

40% is still less than the majority, and Wayland chose to break compatibility with X11 drivers, so they get to own half of this breakage

I expect they do not target world domination.

Anyone who wants stable, performant GPU today can buy AMD. Future is here. That's Wayland target.

I live in the past — Intel GPU, X.Org, xmonad. I've thought to wait a few more years but I've checked Sway, it works. I'll check waymonad, maybe it works, maybe I'll make it work.

Wayland GNOME and KDE works with NVIDIA.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland#Requirements