I think it was the "security" argument. Some magic words like "security" and "protect the children" make most people go insane, abandon all reason.
You'll excuse me if I am not terribly enthusiastic about breaking all sorts of functionality to solve a security problem I've never experienced in my 25 years on linux.
Xorg's security (and X11 in general) is objectively terrible - this is not even a debatable question.
You'll excuse me if I am not terribly enthusiastic about breaking all sorts of functionality to solve a security problem I've never experienced in my 25 years on linux.