Wayland early on decided that security is hard and the way forward is to just... not have the functionality. I remember when there was serious discussion copy-paste should be handled by D-Bus service provided by DE and implemented by "major toolkits". Same for anything else that might require permissions (this is how we got portals and their brokeness).
And yeah, nothing in it was related to "woke" (that's just certain dev's personal weirdness), and a lot was related to really weird community situation that X.Org (which is not X11 itself) got itself in, like the costly and failed switch to autotools (they switched, but didn't get the results they undertook that pain for). Meanwhile they were operating from "lowest common denominator" code base that got extended a lot but never truly redone (compare Xsgi, which was a compositing X server and made extensive use of multiple visuals to ensure optimal resource usage).
And yeah, nothing in it was related to "woke" (that's just certain dev's personal weirdness), and a lot was related to really weird community situation that X.Org (which is not X11 itself) got itself in, like the costly and failed switch to autotools (they switched, but didn't get the results they undertook that pain for). Meanwhile they were operating from "lowest common denominator" code base that got extended a lot but never truly redone (compare Xsgi, which was a compositing X server and made extensive use of multiple visuals to ensure optimal resource usage).