The "TLDR" is sub heading is completely misleading. Cinnamon devs see they have to move, that's the reason. "Begging to work" on Wayland is not at all what the article says. Before you downvote, read it. Nothing in that article or the link to one dev's blog says anything even remotely like that.

As a Debian XFCE user, I will gladly switch to Wayland when it is available.

Good. X11 has not been properly maintained and shouldn’t be the default for any distro. (Xorg, whatever.)

I feel like talk about Wayland being the next big thing, “coming soon” began back when I was using Linux as my daily driver over ten years ago.

It’s still not widely used?

Keep in mind their time line is like 2 years.

devs are begging

Do you mean beginning?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol – and so is the original developer of Xfce.

Normally, the project's experimental repository, codenamed "Romeo," is private, and code is only opened to the public once it reaches beta test stage.

Cinnamon 6.0, planned for Mint 21.3 this year, will feature experimental Wayland support, but he warns folks not to expect too much at this early stage:

It was the first release that defaulted to the then-new Unity desktop, and at the time, the Reg didn't rate it very highly.

As his new blog reveals, so is Red Hat developer Olivier Fourdan, who has been working on a rootful mode for XWayland.

What is possibly more interesting is that Monsieur Fourdan has a previous claim to fame: he is the original author of the Xfce desktop, which he started building way back in 1996, as he mentions in this 2009 interview.

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How did Mint fuck up year-based version numbering? I did a fresh install on a laptop this year and briefly worried project had died.

Wayland has been great on Debian stable after swapping to an AMD graphics card