As much as I want to support the idea of a well supported, modernised graphical protocol system, wayland simply isn’t ready yet. There’s so much shit that simply doesn’t work, and they’re all made up of little niche cases that will take substantially longer than a few months to resolve, and I still haven’t seen anything that suggests Wayland has a practical equivalent to xorg.conf.
Is Alma Linux rolling their own version of Plasma with x11? Or are they just sticking with an older version of Plasma? Is anyone else planning on hacking x11 back into the DE?
The issue is that maintaining X11, like any large and old software, is a lot of work, even if it does not add features. Probably way more than you think.
And as far as I understand, the people who used to work on X11 are moving to Wayland, too. Unless volunteers pick that work up, X11 will rot and become unusable over time.
The other thing: Replacing and modernizing a very large piece of software which is so much integrated will always be a lot of work, take a lot of time, and be somewhat painful. That’s just life. And there will always be early adopters and late movers - which is fine, too.
And by the way, I am using stumpwm on X11. It is called the Emacs of window managers for a reason, and WMs written e.g. in Guile Scheme are still catching up.