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SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0
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This feels like the same kind of issue mesa just had around the zlib update breaking downstream user programs (viewperf). If there are significant downstream issues for users you shouldn't upgrade, even if that is the end goal.
Projects that are big and important get old and bloated because they need to try and span legacy issues alongside their attempts at newer paradigms. It's just kind of the natural lifecycle of these projects.