I understand where you are coming from, but I think at the end of the day, if there are people on $platform who are willing to contribute, that's all that actually matters. If there aren't enough users, there will be nobody to support it, so it dies. In other words, it not about how much one platform "matters" over another to some users.
We can't expect people to work for free to support our platforms with no benefit to them.
If you really care, I guess donate some hardware, or pay some developer to work on this, or provide support yourself! I know that sounds rude but it is what it comes down to.
It seems like in this specific case X11 will still support whatever exactly this feature is but will put it behind a config option. The idea above applies in general to open source work though.
We can't expect people to work for free to support our platforms with no benefit to them.
If you really care, I guess donate some hardware, or pay some developer to work on this, or provide support yourself! I know that sounds rude but it is what it comes down to.
It seems like in this specific case X11 will still support whatever exactly this feature is but will put it behind a config option. The idea above applies in general to open source work though.