(1) The Wayland transition is unavoidable. X11 can't any longer be maintained: Nobody *wants* to maintain X11, and there's no mechanism to *force* anyone to maintain X11. X11 is a contract with GPU manufacturers and new GPUs are made all the time, so you can't just stick with what you have.
(2) The Wayland transition probably couldn't have been delayed, at least not much, because I don't know where the resources to maintain both stacks in parallel much longer would have come with.
(3) The Wayland transition was very disappointing. Needs from user groups as varied as (a) fractional-DPI laptop owners, (b) disabled users, (c) graphics apps managing floating palettes !! Were not considered early enough or thoughtfully enough. I don't see hard evidence there's a timeline for addressing them now.. I would call this a failure. But I need to be clear the failure was neither the decision to go Wayland, or the decision to do it now. It was a failure to plan ahead.
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