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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
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When both NVIDIA and KDE work well with Wayland, most of the anti-Wayland energy will go away. The advocates will calm down too bar cause they will have won.
I don't think the sentiment is 'anti-wayland'. Most people just don't care. I'm using Awesome WM and it doesn't support Wayland. As OP says, why would I rewrite all my plugins and config just to the sake of switching to Wayland? I would have to invest a lot of time and what will I gain? Absolutely nothing. On my work computer I have different distro and I'm using Cinnamon. I think it uses Wayland but I didn't even bother to check. It works exactly the same as Gnome on X11. Why would I care?
The Cinnamon team didn't even consider Wayland yet.