The drama was mostly over whether or not Wayland should have been the replacement. AFAIU, everyone agreed X11 development was effectively unsustainable or at least at a dead end.
Wayland is not a solution, just a name for some protocols... It's either KDE or Gnome (with it's weird quirks) or some alternative.
Wayland is not a solution, just a name for some protocols... It's either KDE or Gnome (with it's weird quirks) or some alternative.