> I don't know a single person that has ever fallen victim to a virus or malware on linux, and I've been using it almost exclusively for the past 20 years. If it was a threat vector, it clearly wasn't a very big issue.

Do you think the same would have applied to Android, had it used X11 instead of SurfaceFlinger (which in turn isn't very different from Wayland)?

Even if no virus cares about the Linux desktop, that doesn't mean that security issues should be ignored.