The very first attempts at organizing something for Wayland development were much later in 2008, also by that exact same group of devs that had worked on X.Org and XFree86 <4.3 (it's not like there were any other devs around familiar with the intimate workings of display servers to compete with them). and founded an organization to develop a GPL-compliant fork based on the previous version, XFree86 4.3. X.Org was founded and forked XFree86 in 2004, not to "fix bugs", but because the company developing XFree86 decided to release the next version, XFree86 4.4 with a non-GPL license. Your timeline and explanation is way off. Wayland may seem new to you but if your are a Fedora Gnome user, you've been using it since 2016, if you are a long-time Ubuntu user, you may remember a Mark Shuttleworth blog post glowingly and excitedly talking about Wayland way back in 2012. So yes, in a way you could say they are 'jumping the gun' but you should understand that the are aware of this, and it wasn't the first choice, but after a decade of feet-dragging in the linux community, somethings gotta accelerate things.
Fedora, Gnome, RHEL, and probably others are dropping Wayland in part to try to accelerate the pace of development and improvement. Support for Wayland is not nearly 100% there yet, but it won't ever be if projects are allowed to continue to put it off indefinitely because its easier for them to just stick with X11. The thing it is replacing X11 is no longer even being actively developed.
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