@atheken @Migueldeicaza I've never touched X at all, that story is my retelling as a mere user roughly familiar with the technical details over the years :) (other than my recent run-ins as part of the Asahi project, but I haven't actually contributed anything, I mostly gave up after seeing the state of things).

I don't think there's a Wayland equivalent for your workload, but you also shouldn't have any pressing need to "move to Wayland". What's dying and on life support is the bare metal X server. If you are piping X apps to xquartz, you aren't using that. So while at some point I guess apps will deprecate X backends and be Wayland-only, that day is not today and hopefully by then someone has written a Wayland equivalent to xquartz that can run with waypipe.