alt Hacker NewsTbh, it's quite delusional to think that a better alternative solution would win that's not backed by Redhat and GNOME. In a purely competitive environment, a design like Wayland could never have "won" as an X11 replacement, it was pushed long enough until it was "too big to fail".
If the alternative really was better, why wouldn't they back it?
They backed systemd. I think you need to stop with conspiracy thinking and admit to yourself that maybe the solution was actually better than before. And as such, if you build something even better, they'll switch too.
But it has to BE better, not just a pile of yelling.