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KWin and Mutter probably hold that title and likely will for many years to come. There would have to be a mass exodus or software switch in Plasma and Gnome before Hyprland could match their market share.
Of course, I was comparing it to other "standalone" window managers, not the ones used by GNOME/KDE, since the userbase will be obviously much higher for the desktop environments.
Kwin and mutter only run with desktopmanagers, he meant windowmanagers that come around without a desktopmanager, like sway or i3 etc.
I wonder if i3 is more, just because it's been around forever, but I could certainly see Hyprland as having the most growth among standalone options.
I would think i3 is slowly dying because sway is it's Wayland replacement. But wrong, i3 has a stable fanbase.
Sway, from what I understand, hasn't really made a ton of improvements that would entice the X11 holdouts to switch. Not that it's bad, but if it's virtually the same as X11—and that's what someone knows best—why would they bother switching (I would, but I also try to use Wayland whenever possible).