Wayland was advertised as protocol mostly. After almost 20 years, it still has not promised to be a full replacement to xorg and probably never will, where wayland developers say "this is not our goal". Took people quite some time to realise that; it's been more recently become obvious, but say, 12 years ago few understood this.

I still have not been able to find working replacements to all that works on xorg, for instance; specifically imagemagick is different on wayland. I may try again at a later point in time, but my old workings there did not work, and replacements seem dead or ineffective or incomplete - that is quite frustrating for something that was aggressively advertised as "this is now the future".