This. Anyone who is thinking of posting "but muh network transparency" or some other tired old argument needs to stfu, watch Daniel Stone's talk, and realize that literally everyone with knowledge of the Linux graphics stack feels the exact same way. X is the internal combustion engine of window systems: it's really bad and it's got to go; give or take epsilon literally 100% of domain experts have known it's got to go for decades; yet here we are still stuck with it.
You WILL be running a Wayland desktop in the near future. Xorg itself is already unmaintained abandonware. The next step is deprecating and removing X support from the major toolkits. Beyond that, who knows. Probably Xwayland itself will be deprecated and removed too.
Best to suck it up, burn your X config to the ground, and start afresh with Wayland. If it's janky, submit bug reports or PRs. Just rip the band-aid off already, because nobody wants to hear your hemming and hawing when the axe finally comes for X.
You WILL be running a Wayland desktop in the near future. Xorg itself is already unmaintained abandonware. The next step is deprecating and removing X support from the major toolkits. Beyond that, who knows. Probably Xwayland itself will be deprecated and removed too.
Best to suck it up, burn your X config to the ground, and start afresh with Wayland. If it's janky, submit bug reports or PRs. Just rip the band-aid off already, because nobody wants to hear your hemming and hawing when the axe finally comes for X.