I can't really tell for sure, but it seems the author makes the confusion that the authors of the Wayland protocol are GNOME developers. That, of course, is not true.
Wayland has it's origins in members of the X11 developer team, and AFAIR Kristian Høgsberg is the sole author of the original protocol spec.
At present the protocols and extensions are discussed and merged by a group that, as far as I know, includes GNOME developers, but they are not in majority nor can they do as they wish overruling the other stake holders (wlroots, KDE, etc).
Now, to the main premise of the article: plenty of applications (at present) make use of client decorations vs. compositor decorations, and it can be easily experienced with Chrom[e|ium] in sway, by enabling/disabling "Use system title bar and borders".
I think the whole piece is a misinformed piece that builds on top of a faulty premise, and the author didn't bother to do minimal research before putting words to paper. I would expect more judgement on the part of the HN crowd instead of accepting it on the idea that conforms their biases towards Wayland being somehow "bad".
It’s beyond misinformation now. These same incorrect statements get made again and again. It’s an actively malicious campaign from a group of trolls spreading fud.
Wayland has it's origins in members of the X11 developer team, and AFAIR Kristian Høgsberg is the sole author of the original protocol spec.
At present the protocols and extensions are discussed and merged by a group that, as far as I know, includes GNOME developers, but they are not in majority nor can they do as they wish overruling the other stake holders (wlroots, KDE, etc).
Now, to the main premise of the article: plenty of applications (at present) make use of client decorations vs. compositor decorations, and it can be easily experienced with Chrom[e|ium] in sway, by enabling/disabling "Use system title bar and borders".
I think the whole piece is a misinformed piece that builds on top of a faulty premise, and the author didn't bother to do minimal research before putting words to paper. I would expect more judgement on the part of the HN crowd instead of accepting it on the idea that conforms their biases towards Wayland being somehow "bad".