A lot of the complaints are about supposedly missing features when X11 and Wayland aren't the same things, IIRC. X11 is a big ball of mud with all kinds of features. Wayland is an attempt to do one thing, and only one thing. You must bring in the other features (like window management and remote networking) as adjacent components.
"This Phillip's-head screwdriver can't cut cheese or open a wine bottle."
> Wayland is an attempt to do one thing, and only one thing. You must bring in the other features (like window management and remote networking) as adjacent components.
It's fine to separate a small core protocol from extensions that flesh out the rest of the features. Wayland, however, did the small core and didn't bother to actually implement the rest, so 16 years on it still doesn't have feature parity.
> "This Phillip's-head screwdriver can't cut cheese or open a wine bottle."
Then stop handing me a screwdriver and telling me I should use it instead of my multitool.
"This Phillip's-head screwdriver can't cut cheese or open a wine bottle."