I used XFCE for a long time and I very much agree. it just works, and is lightweight. I use KDE these days but XFCE would be my second choice.
> The X11 diehards will go the way of the SysV-init diehard
I hope you are not conflating anti-systemD people with SysV init diehards? As far as I can see very few people want to keep Sysv init, but there are lots who think SystemD init is the wrong replacement, and those primarily because its a lot more than an init system.
In many ways the objects are opposite. People hate system D for being more than init, people hate Wayland for doing less than X.
Edit: corrected "Wayland" to "XFCE" in first sentence!
> The X11 diehards will go the way of the SysV-init diehard
I hope you are not conflating anti-systemD people with SysV init diehards? As far as I can see very few people want to keep Sysv init, but there are lots who think SystemD init is the wrong replacement, and those primarily because its a lot more than an init system.
In many ways the objects are opposite. People hate system D for being more than init, people hate Wayland for doing less than X.
Edit: corrected "Wayland" to "XFCE" in first sentence!