Wayland design choices are heavily influenced by automotive and TV where it has been industry standard way before it became mostly usable as a desktop. And that has lead to design compromises that look odd on desktop.

But hey, you can probably run automotive UIs with your desktop compositor.

And Gnome devs are just being silly at this point.

This car runs KDE Plasma's KWin, along with many other Mercedes-Benz models currently launching:

https://youtu.be/wo5As8et1G8

https://youtu.be/pqJ-9SUPFwY

Notably this deployment doesn't use any of the old-gen automotive Wayland cruft like ivi-shell though. It's pretty much the desktop stack now.