> Wayland is in some ways actually better because it removes the massive central mess that is the X server... but then forces every other component to deal with those things, and does so in ways that to date play badly with composability in the software

This is a great example of Larry Wall's Conservation of Cruft principle. [0]

[0] https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl6-Doc/share/Apocal...