This is wrong. For legacy code there is Xwayland and the blog post actually describes it.

I'm using Wayland on Archlinux and despite I run currently no legacy software Xwayland is active:

    $ xlsclients 
    gsd-xsettings
    mutter-x11-frames

Therefore Xwayland is running and consuming 164 Megabyte of RSS. Despite I don't run applications depending on X11. I suspect the file /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.desktop is the cause:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Name=GNOME XSettings
    Exec=/usr/lib/gsd-xsettings
    OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
    NoDisplay=true
    X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
    X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
    X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
    X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd=true

If I guess it right this should help X11 based applications to get the needed settings. Probably /org/gnome/mutter/experimental-features with autoclose-xwayland is what I want. I assumed that is already the default - wrong assumption. Xwayland remains available for stuff like legacy software (various games from Steam) and doesn't consume resources when not required. I wouldn’t be surprised if legacy games ship in future (ten years or more…) with a built-in Xwayland-Wrapper or something similar.

> Xorg works, has always worked, and will continue to work

Sure, you could say the same about IE6.

> Wayland is a broken vanity project by a minor amateur maintainer

Despite its flaws, Wayland is a widely adopted production-ready project made by Xorg maintainers and nearly everyone else who has been seriously working on the graphics stack on Linux in the past 5 years. There is a good chance that Wayland is running in your car's infotainment system.

And it only works on Linux, that is the issue. Porting to other UN*X is a major pain. There is a lot more to the world than Linux.

Also I am sure Wayland will never be ported to AIX, you know, the UNIX used by many large finance companies. BSDs are having a hard time with it due to Linuxisms.

It used to be all the world is a VAX and now it's all the world is a Linux. So it goes.

That said, how much user facing graphical stuff runs on AIX? That is a genuine question because I don't know and it sounds like you do.

Some purchased (3rd party) admin items do, they use motif. We have a couple at work. Some people run these using windows app, I showed people how use Linux years ago.

Ah yes, more excellent work from the generation of programmers took race-conditions and declared it to be the new "asynchronous" programming paradigm

How long until Wayland is the old thing that we've barely moved on to before the systemd folks subsume the display subsystem?

You don't need to fight anything/anyone. The code is open source, fork and maintain it. You shouldn't have any issue replacing the "broken vanity project by a minor amateur maintainer", right?