RIP, X11. You had the correct architecture. I still believe that the goals of Wayland would have been better achieved as a collection of X extensions than as an entirely new system that's lost many of the capabilities of X, including network transparency, input configuration, and window manager decoupling. Wayland is great if you want to build a Windows clone that works exactly the way Red Hat wants it to work --- but it represents a decline from the Unix ideal of configurability, experimentation, and simplicity.
The sad reality is that as bad as X is, Wayland is too much of a half-baked replacement to say that it is definitely better. Case in point: it's about 10 years old now and people still say it isn't ready yet!
