It just seems Wayland's combination of technical requirements and political entanglements make it a sort of Zeno's Project, doomed to asymptotically approach peoples' expectations and desires, but never reach them.
So? The same has been the case for desktop Linux in general, for 2 decades.
Some of us have been running Linux desktops for over two decades. Nothing more fun than setting Modelines manually for your VESA card:
Wine sucked and there was less software existed but it was perfectly possible to do the normal tasks one did with a computer.
Edit: I guess it was a 486 in a 386 motherboard. Windows was definitely slower at 75MHz than Linux at 25MHz though:
http://ps-2.kev009.com/sandy55/Interposer/386_upgrade.html#R...
Linux Desktop is Great. Wayland is still in the process of becoming great (I think it's making good progress too)
Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultForPl...
I've never even had a reason to want to run it.
But I'm sure it'll be great, any day now.