@icst Giving people choices is kind of what Linux is all about imo so that makes sense. The way KDE does it now by shipping with Wayland configured by default but X still being available in the event Wayland doesn't work is probably the way it should be maintained in the future though I don't know how much added complexity maintaining both is. Systemd, when talking about just the Daemon management part (and journald) is just better IMO so I understand why distros started switching to it and decoupling your PID 1 is probably even harder to maintain than any X/Wayland shenanigans sincr you would have to ship different config files for every different tool instead of just 1. I understand why Rust is a thing to avoid the footgun magnet that is raw C/C++ but I personally didn't like writing it all that much though again choice is the important thing. Not going to talk about the vax because I legitimately just do not care about it.

For most of those there are choices to use the older option and they should probably still exist for reasons beyond just legacy software even if a different band of autists maintain them. I will never understand being afraid of change because doing the same thing the same way forever is boring as hell but pushback against changing for the sole sake of changing is also super important

Apologies for the gigantic text dump basically TLDR your point is reasonable but I don't agree with it personally