I've never seen non-laggy screensharing with X either (especially since most modern apps draw directly and don't use X commands) so that's a really facetious argument to make. Even with NX and Xpra.

State of the art has moved to image compression based screen sharing even on Linux and demanding that we stay on an obsolete stack which falls apart as soon as you connect a modern monitor to modern laptop due to some 1990s usecase is the crux of all these neckbeard complaints. Just like with Pulse, SystemD and bunch of others.

Linux distros want to stay competitive in the now, not in 1990s. Which is why they're gaining market share.

> Linux distros want to stay competitive in the now, not in 1990s. Which is why they're gaining market share.

This is where distro diversity is critical. Users have the choice to use a distro that is serious about maintaining backward compatibility or they can choose the ones chasing the new shiny. Everyone wins.

Personally, I’m not swayed by the “but it’s modern!” arguments. I just want my existing software to continue working. I don’t care if my stack is obsolete, whatever that means. I just don’t want to worry about software breaking when I update to the never version.

Other people are not like me and they can go use a distro with Wayland, and we are all happy.