Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

Wayland, intended as a replacement for the X11 display protocol, has been in development for 17 years yet only reached 40-60% market share, which the author argues represents a misallocation of developer resources at the expense of users. The article frames Wayland's slow adoption as an engineering post-mortem, contrasting it with PipeWire, which replaced its competitors within roughly 8 years.