Thank you all for the responses. Let me preface this to offer a modicum of credibility. I started my open-source adventure at the turn of the millennium when I found an obscure dutch program called Blender back in the NAN days and volunteered, earning several different positions in the organization as it grew over the next decade and a half. I also was a beta-tester for Artrage (could spot endianess issues when mac switched from motorolla to intel chips), working on other graphics software, commercial and open-source. My primary machine is a Legion Pro laptop with rtx 5800. And am currently employed at a company doing tech support for a linux operating system.

The idea of how do you take these outputs and present them to the user is a fascinating subject I will NEVER get bored of and every advancement excites me. I don't know how Wayland works, all I know is that in Mint there is an option to turn it on when I log in, and every two years or so I try it, and I end up saying, "not ready yet" because well I need to lock my screen when I leave my computer, not to hide anything but out of respect for the data of my users. Scrolling, probably in Firefox, looks like a strobe light, that's an exaggeration but it is anything but smooth or with the momentum X11 provides. I'm old now, in my 50's, I don't want to faff about with settings or extra shit... so that is why I gave the critique I gave. If you wrote a lockscreen then wtf isn't it incorporated into Wayland, I mean I might be 60, 70 years old by then... it just seems like the string theory of graphics display, and if it's that fucking convoluted, why don't you guys just start over?