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GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support
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This is also how X11 works if you choose not to use x.org... wayland is a protocol, the equivalent you're looking for is wlroots.
If you use wlroots, you don't have to do any of that.
As for why kde/wlroots/gnome are separate... x.org used to have multiple implementations too, until one took over and became used everywhere. Wlroots is the equivalent to x.org, and shares many implementation details with kde, gnome is the only odd one out, and both kde and gnomes implementations only exist because they came before wlroots.