I was feeling the same! I came away from this article even more confused as to what's been going on.
I used to be a maintainer on Xfce (though it's been a decade since I was active), and I've been worried (as a user) about the "upgrade path". Porting (if you can call it that) from X11 desktop environment to Wayland compositor (etc.) is a huge step to take, it seems, and Xfce's current core team doesn't seem interested in going in that direction (I don't blame them).
As a user, I want to just keep using Xfce until the heat death of the universe. As someone who might get involved in Xfce development again, I worry that any work I'd be doing on the X11-based things might be wasted time in the long run.
I was feeling the same! I came away from this article even more confused as to what's been going on.
I used to be a maintainer on Xfce (though it's been a decade since I was active), and I've been worried (as a user) about the "upgrade path". Porting (if you can call it that) from X11 desktop environment to Wayland compositor (etc.) is a huge step to take, it seems, and Xfce's current core team doesn't seem interested in going in that direction (I don't blame them).
As a user, I want to just keep using Xfce until the heat death of the universe. As someone who might get involved in Xfce development again, I worry that any work I'd be doing on the X11-based things might be wasted time in the long run.