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They are all planning to move to Wayland, even the OS's. Gnome first, KDE is still untangling X11 from Kwin, but expected to drop it with KDE7. It is time.
I'm partly to blame for this.
I have telemetry turned on and recently switched to Wayland. They're looking at the data and decided me switching was the final straw.