[tlug] Why Wayland?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@example.com>]

lain. writes:

 > On another note, to input Japanese, you'll need to use Xorg,
 > because I've never had any success getting IME to work on Wayland,
 > and Wayland has been pretty much alpha quality software for 16
 > years

That's my impression as well.  What is the attraction of Wayland,
anyway?  It's a cool idea, building in modern graphic primitives, but
what does it actually do better?