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XWayland is good enough for legacy apps at this point so there's no reason whatsoever to hold onto the ridiculous mess that is x11. Wayland still needs some obscure features parity, sure, but at this point there's not a good argument against it unlike some other 'modernize linux' changes.
Plus there's always LXDE for legacy hardware.
Like someone else has commented, the main thing that seems missing that is important is accessibility. Apparently people that need screen readers or other aids are just hosed as I understand it.
It might be a chicken-and-egg situation though, where nobody focuses on Wayland in this area as X11 is familiar and (still) working, so more display managers moving over might also eventually shift the (probably very limited) Dev resources over. At least I hope so.
Screen readers have been solved for a while via OrCA's updates which cover gtk+ and qt applications under wayland, though all of linux really needs better accessibility to compete in that arena. That being said yes as the zeitgeist essentially forces developers off of x11 more will take their knowledge to wayland which will even further speed up the (unfortunately) niche areas of development that might be missed.
There's also government funding for accessibility improvements in linux (like the Newton project from the German government) which should help solve several of the challenges.
The transition away from X11 had me worried, I felt like the ground was moving out from under me. But XWayland has been working well enough for my necessary legacy apps.