Exactly. And for much smaller organizations and individuals, it is much harder to organize an alternative effort to this set of projects backed up by a big corporation (Red Hat).
There are exceptions. Drew Devault and the rest of the Sway team did write wlroots, an alternative compositor for Wayland, so Wayland is less of a monoculture.
But it is true that it requires a lot of manpower, money, and will to develop an alternative to e.g. Wayland. However, I see the current situation more as the glass being half full. Imagine that we did not have Red Hat, and others pulling the weight of Wayland (and other technologies, such as Flatpak), the Linux desktop ecosystem would in many ways be hopelessly behind macOS, iOS, and Windows.
I think this is a better outcome than being stuck with 80ies/90ies graphics technology forever, even if it is not perfect.
There are exceptions. Drew Devault and the rest of the Sway team did write wlroots, an alternative compositor for Wayland, so Wayland is less of a monoculture.
But it is true that it requires a lot of manpower, money, and will to develop an alternative to e.g. Wayland. However, I see the current situation more as the glass being half full. Imagine that we did not have Red Hat, and others pulling the weight of Wayland (and other technologies, such as Flatpak), the Linux desktop ecosystem would in many ways be hopelessly behind macOS, iOS, and Windows.
I think this is a better outcome than being stuck with 80ies/90ies graphics technology forever, even if it is not perfect.