It’s more of an “it’s still experimental” kind of issue. They’re releasing the Wayland session into the wild before it’s ready to boost the pace of bug-squashing. X11 remains default, but they allow the people who want to contribute (instead of whine on public forums about missing features) to test the Wayland session on a much greater variety of hardware and OS configurations than could ever be achieved in-house, report bugs, break things, and submit changes.
It’s more of an “it’s still experimental” kind of issue. They’re releasing the Wayland session into the wild before it’s ready to boost the pace of bug-squashing. X11 remains default, but they allow the people who want to contribute (instead of whine on public forums about missing features) to test the Wayland session on a much greater variety of hardware and OS configurations than could ever be achieved in-house, report bugs, break things, and submit changes.