Ahh, classic: blame the user.

You are wrong for expecting things to work in a way that's familiar!

Global hotkey bindings? Sure, that works on Windows, macOS, and X, but it doesn't on Wayland and its your fault for expecting it.

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

> As an end-user you can continue to use what works for you.

LOL, Wayland is literally being marketed as the replacement for X. It's even the default display server in Debian, Ubuntu, and (I think?) Fedora.

Why are you surprised that people therefore expect stuff that works in X to work in Wayland?

This entire post is about Xorg becoming abandonware. People are expressing why they're not willing to switch to Wayland, citing lack of features they use.

> As an end-user you can continue to use what works for you.

Until Xorg becomes unmaintained and eventually breaks. Wayland is not being put forth as an option. The idea is that X will eventually be unsupported.

I would appreciate it if you could quote the article where it expounds on the cost.

I've read through it a few times, and could only find two very brief, vague, handwavy complaints against X:

1 - "the code happens to implement an unfortunate specification"

2 - "You can only apply so much thrust to the pig before you question why you're trying to make it fly at all."

As an end-user, I don't find these to be particularly convincing.

Moreover, X works for me now and does everything I need.