yes it has improved a lot within the past year. I went from hating it a year ago to using it as my second DE for gaming. I hate to use this phrase but "It just works". And honestly once they roll out their workspace thing for multimonitor setups in Feb I might switch from Niri to it and make it my daily driver.

Agreed, the efforts to increase code reuse and remove cruft has helped a lot with stability.

I still have some odd behavior but it's much more trustworthy than early 6.4 and 6.3

We're around the teetering point where X11 still works pretty well especially on older hardware. Like if you're rocking a GTX-1000 series graphics card I'd go Mint Cinnamon with X11, that's probably going to be a better experience than Wayland. There's certain things that X11 permitted that Wayland's security model outlaws, which is a deal breaker for some, but Wayland is the future.

running GDM on two laptops, same models etc. Wayland glitches out all the time compared to x11.

• windows flickering in/out of existence
• random screen flickering
• random screen artifacts
• DPI scaling issues
• screen sharing doesn't work

x11 just works. like, no problems. I get it, new stuff etc, but Wayland has a long way to go before I switch.

X11 has it's issues but i don't think Wayland is the way either.

Same for me. I'm still kinda new to Linux so I'm not an expert on the matter, but what I'm reading online is that it doesn't work very well with Nvidia cards, which is what I use.

X11 doesn't support a number of modern features well (e.g. fractional scaling) and has a fundamentally insecure operational model that makes it hard to prevent keylogging/screengrabbing, and the developers found it so hard to evolve & work with over time that they decided to start over with a more modular and conservative approach.

While it was a painful transition, I believe it's worth it. But I don't think that the accessibility story has developed enough to make the deprecation of X11 a good idea...