I was initially excited for wayland, and was an early adopter.
I soon soured on the entire thing. It's very clear to me that wayland was an 'ivory tower' display server that had little respect for users or wm devs. You can't just go and break tons of things for security's sake when the harm is clearly higher than the benefits. Disabling screen and input capture should have been an 'opt in' feature for the truly paranoid. They should have also shipped a fully working bare bones desktop wm instead of a 'toy' implementation meant to run on a car entertainment center.
Frankly I can't believe it got as much traction as it has, but we're all stuck with it now as it's clearly 'the future'. This and systemd really showed me that the linux ecosystem is far more vulnerable to the interests of a few corporate sponsored devs than the general community.
I soon soured on the entire thing. It's very clear to me that wayland was an 'ivory tower' display server that had little respect for users or wm devs. You can't just go and break tons of things for security's sake when the harm is clearly higher than the benefits. Disabling screen and input capture should have been an 'opt in' feature for the truly paranoid. They should have also shipped a fully working bare bones desktop wm instead of a 'toy' implementation meant to run on a car entertainment center.
Frankly I can't believe it got as much traction as it has, but we're all stuck with it now as it's clearly 'the future'. This and systemd really showed me that the linux ecosystem is far more vulnerable to the interests of a few corporate sponsored devs than the general community.