> if 10 applications work on all the popular compositors but don't work in one with a novel approach to window management, then that compositor is considered broken, not the applications

novel? such as, I dunno, wayland compositors breaking multi-window X11 apps? so he admits that wayland can be considered broken from the end user perspective then

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/247#note_2105977

cc @rees