Sam Bent, 8 months ago (at this time), covered XLibre, which is essentially a fork of XOrg that wants to clean up the codebase, modernize it, and fix the security holes that lasted for years on XOrg.
Meetux, the developer, became persona-non-Grata in FreeDesktop, IBM, RedHat, and possible GNOME circles, simply because he wanted to fix Xorg so people have an option on what they want to use.
It’s also why I won’t kowtow to IBM, GNOME, and FDO’s demands, due to technical merit being moot.
He didn’t became persona non grata, because he wanted to fix things. He’s persona non grata because he keept pushing breaking changes in the stable main branch. And when others on the team asked him to stop. He pushed back entitled and refused. So they gave him the boot.
I wish him the best of luck with his fork. He’s going to need it as it will largely be all him. As he’s not a responsible or team player. I’d say the xorg group could do better too. But they weren’t unjustified expelling him.
Wayland pushes a lot of breaking changes from what I’m aware of, while X is still stable. These are Wayland devs who are projecting what they’re doing onto people who use XOrg/XLibre.