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ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on.
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X11 is an multiple decade old dinosaur, the developer decided it was growing too complex and no longer representing how graphics are done on modern systems and decided a rewrite. While doing so they decided to simplify some things along the way and in doing so they drastically overshoot their target and removed tons of fundamental functions that was present in X11 (stuff like being able to take screenshots, window manager, etc.). Some of that is slowly getting reimplemented and Wayland is getting closer to actually being a feature-parity X11 replacement, but it's also taken 15 years and is still not done. The whole drama is the conflict between people wanting it as default and the other group of people for which it simply doesn't work in its current state.
On X I can do everything, on Wayland I can't:
Half of what you said are either issues with your current compositor's implementation or Nvidia driver related issues, since Wayland on both KWin and Mutter under AMD don't present any of these issues, atleast for me, while I had the latency issue you mention with my older 3080 card.
The protocol is still under development after 25 years yes, but at the end of the day you vote with your wallet, and Nvidia clearly doesn't give a shit about open-source or Linux as a whole since we're a minority.