I think gp and gggp are arguing that the diffusion of responsibility means that nothing takes responsibility for baseline functionality, and as such there are huge gaps.
With X all these things are in X or the single shared X compositor itself. Yes, it's bloated and sometimes lacks flexibility in configuration or doesn't work perfectly, but there's no gaps.
I don't think the author is saying these individual projects should do these things, but if they don't, who does? It means that everyone using wayland effectively is using dwm, and dwm isn't for everyone (or even most people?). It feels like you're saying users should suck it up and learn to love the dwm philosophy, C and all, which doesn't seem quite right to me.
In practice, Linux distributions have been the system integrators that pull these things together and handle the gaps. That's really the value of a distribution - pulls a set of components together in a way that works.
In this case, I use Fedora (Gnome). Most things are on Wayland and it works pretty well.
With X all these things are in X or the single shared X compositor itself. Yes, it's bloated and sometimes lacks flexibility in configuration or doesn't work perfectly, but there's no gaps.
I don't think the author is saying these individual projects should do these things, but if they don't, who does? It means that everyone using wayland effectively is using dwm, and dwm isn't for everyone (or even most people?). It feels like you're saying users should suck it up and learn to love the dwm philosophy, C and all, which doesn't seem quite right to me.