> Perhaps not the most exciting task, but I figure it’s isomorphic to any other scaling challenge
And doing this for everything in the entire ecosystem of ancient GUI libraries? And dealing with the litany of different ways folks have done icons, text, and even just drawing lines onto the screen? That's where you run into a lot of trouble.
Right, it's much easier to also re-engineer all of X11 into Wayland at the same time :).