I don’t think anyone “failed to appreciate” that thread. The core reasoning on the part of the Wayland devs was absurd beyond belief.
“Applications and users decide what's actually optional - if 10 applications work on all the popular compositors but don't work in one with a novel approach to window management, then that compositor is considered broken, not the applications.”
So, the obvious solution to the problem is, apparently, to have no solution and have everything broken. Genius.
“Applications and users decide what's actually optional - if 10 applications work on all the popular compositors but don't work in one with a novel approach to window management, then that compositor is considered broken, not the applications.”
So, the obvious solution to the problem is, apparently, to have no solution and have everything broken. Genius.