What I care about are the existing features. Bugs don't look any better in HDR.
I'm sure it'll all be fixed sooner or later but until then it's a downgrade for me, and I just don't get this "best time to switch" sentiment about an unfinished component that a user shouldn't even need to know about.
> And because the X11 maintainers decided that Wayland is the way forward and X11 will simply not get new display features like HDR.
Is Wayland a racket? Barely maintain the previous code instead of making clear that others should take it over because you are insterested in something else, then force everyone into your new incomplete code base, and probably bill for the reimplementation of basic capabilities, piece by piece.
OTOH, not everyone involved with X11 thinks it has no future. Keith Packard posted ideas [0] about how to improve it further.
What? It's been known that the X maintainers had moved on to devote almost all their efforts to Wayland for years now. And yes, part of the Wayland strategy has been -- much like with systemd -- to drag the community, kicking and screaming if need be, into modernity.
Anybody who wants to maintain Xorg is free to step up.
And because the X11 maintainers decided that Wayland is the way forward and X11 will simply not get new display features like HDR.