The drama was mostly over whether or not Wayland should have been the replacement. AFAIU, everyone agreed X11 development was effectively unsustainable or at least at a dead end.

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silon42 3 days ago | parent [-]

Wayland is not a solution, just a name for some protocols... It's either KDE or Gnome (with it's weird quirks) or some alternative.

	▲	gh02t 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		So is X11, though the reference implementation of X11 is also widely agreed to have some serious problems going forward on top of problems with the protocol itself.