Is Red Hat still following the playbook? The more companies are engaging in this sort of strategy, the less concentrated the control should be, right?
Others are doing the same, probably to take some control for themselves, but have a look on the recent conversation about GTK5 being Wayland-only.
It is the same playbook they used to force Systemd adoption all over again.
So, yes, they are still using the same playbook.
Because everyone talks about the issues of X, but Gnome, KDE, Xfce and others run flawless on X, but these same desktops have problems when running on Wayland.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-pe...
The lack of problems on X and the problems on Wayland are mostly an issue of maturity.