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You can have Snap, Flatpaks and native packaging running side by side so... and Ubuntu has a unified interface for all of them (the "Software" application). So yeah, another non-problem for the end user.

The end user doesn't have to know what X11 and Wayland are. You don't need to know this to use most software. Just use what your distro provides.

Most of the complexity you mention is hidden from the end user.

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As a developer, we've had to tell users to switch to X11 to use certain features that are unsupported on Wayland (related to screensharing), so I'd disagree that these things are hidden from end users. Wayland is fine for the everyday use case but there's a lot of software out there that is built on tools like xev and xprop that have been part of the ecosystem for decades.

There's also color management which is not yet supported in Wayland if you need monitor calibration or to do any print work.

Yep. Wayland is nice, and there are components in it that I like, but it gets destroyed by x11 in terms of feature-completeness. Even adding wlroots doesn't get close to the out-of-the-box capabilities x11 offered.

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