They’re all searching for “solutions” but nobody is creating them. Funny how most of the people complaining about systemd aren’t actually system devs themselves and thus have no clue what they’re talking about.

Nobody (not even GNOME) is actively wanting to force systemd and keep out alternatives, there just aren’t any proper alternatives offering the same kind of functionality and quality.

Wayland hasn’t been experimental for a while. Both KDE Plasma and GNOME have defaulted to Wayland for a while now indicating it’s ready to be used. And in fact, scaling works better on Wayland than on X11 but I suppose ymmv.