The team behind Wayland (freedesktop.org) are also the developers for xorg, nobody wants to work on xorg anymore due to architectural and codebase issues. Most of the commits to Xorg recently have been for XWayland, not Xorg. Xorg is essentially in maintaince mode.
Whilst most of the newer things implemented Wayland could theoretically be implemented within the X architecture nobody wants to do it both due to the architecture of X and the age of the Xorg codebase.
X will presumably be around for another 50 years but it will not receive the development needed for modern tech.
Whilst most of the newer things implemented Wayland could theoretically be implemented within the X architecture nobody wants to do it both due to the architecture of X and the age of the Xorg codebase.
X will presumably be around for another 50 years but it will not receive the development needed for modern tech.