Wayland needed that core functionality from the start.

No it didn’t.

They chose not to include it, it was so short sighted.

They chose to make it an add-on to the protocol, this harms literally nothing except your feelings.

That’s why waypipe was created, to cover the huge gap they created.

…Yes, people made waypipe because waypipe didn’t exist yet, now it exists, and it works fine.

and by the time someone glued that hack onto the side of wayland, it was too late

Too late for… your feelings?

It was already hated for neglecting the primary use of X windows

Nobody but you thinks that’s the primary use of X windows.

That hate doesn’t go away unless they internalize the functionality into wayland itself, and take significant steps toward re-implementing all the features of X they ignored and turn it into a real X12.

…Are you not aware of what the wayland devs have been doing? they add features and implement them, they didn’t do it all instantly from the start because that’s literally impossible. It now has all the missing features.

Think Firefox extension or plug-in. Not properly included in the original base product, but added on by others. That will never be as elegant and pure as a fully integrated built in solution. Waypipe only exists because wayland was purposefully made incomplete.

This is nonsense, give me an actual example of how waypipe is worse, network transparency was sacrificed to work on more important features, and made it easy to extend the protocol to support it later. There’s no downsides to this.

That will never be as elegant and pure as a fully integrated built in solution.

It already is.