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> Wayland is also, with its forced composition, hostile to interactive applications requiring low latency, e.g. video games.

In fast-paced games it is essential to disable vertical synchronization as well, trading possible tearing for less input lag.

Does Wayland support this?

You can draw to the OpenGL/EGL surfaces directly (Weston 5.0+ has composition bypass).

Yes.

Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about, with the feature only coming in 2020 and being specific to Gnome.