alt Hacker NewsSo basically what you are saying is that they could have changed a default in a config file somewhere, 5 minutes of work, but instead they decided to spend hundreds (thousands?) of person-years building something new from scratch? And that's a good thing? Oof.
I assume there's a reason Intel didn't make that particular setting the default in their x11 drivers. While it certainly fixed the screen tearing issue, I presume there was some tradeoff which made some other feature worse off. Wayland however I assume is already built so it doesn't need the driver to implement some workaround to fix it, it's already designed to correctly handle video output by ensuring only the full frame is rendered every single frame.