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just this month I had multiple wayland issues forcing me to switch to an x11 session
Since we're going with anecdotal evidence, I've been using Wayland daily for over a year and haven't had any issues related to it
Ok
Personally X11 is unusably buggy and janky. Just a clearly inferior experience.
While maybe sometimes buggy, at least things run. I'm all for modernization, but if there are compatibility problems with recent software, I'm not OK with it being declared "the better, mature standard thing everybody should now use".