ad 2: creators and maintainers in the context of Xorg was referring to the creators and maintainers of Xorg, not some random other project
ad 3: nobody claims they are "pulling the rug from underneath" anyone. Especially in the context of Wayland, the communication is very clear that this is ongoing work, that current infrastructure is maintained in parallel to that work and that there is a lot of work also put into compatibility for early adopters and, later on, unmaintained legacy applications.
In other words the developers do exactly what you suggest they do.
ad 4: "Send someone over to nvidia."
You are right! Man, why did never anyone ever think about that?! Those managers and legal experts must be really dumb to have not been able to devise such a simple solution.
"unless I severely misunderstand the way this stuff works"
I know it is strange, but I somehow think that this is more likely than nobody ever coming up with the idea of talking to Nvidia and Nvidia never ever coming up with the idea of talking to Linux distribution companies.
Really, do you think proprietary friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, who ship proprietary software (e.g. firmware and applications) would put extra effort into making download and installation of proprietary drivers as easy as possible if they could just ship them instead?
Re: tweaks
ad 2: creators and maintainers in the context of Xorg was referring to the creators and maintainers of Xorg, not some random other project
ad 3: nobody claims they are "pulling the rug from underneath" anyone. Especially in the context of Wayland, the communication is very clear that this is ongoing work, that current infrastructure is maintained in parallel to that work and that there is a lot of work also put into compatibility for early adopters and, later on, unmaintained legacy applications.
In other words the developers do exactly what you suggest they do.
ad 4: "Send someone over to nvidia."
You are right! Man, why did never anyone ever think about that?! Those managers and legal experts must be really dumb to have not been able to devise such a simple solution.
"unless I severely misunderstand the way this stuff works"
I know it is strange, but I somehow think that this is more likely than nobody ever coming up with the idea of talking to Nvidia and Nvidia never ever coming up with the idea of talking to Linux distribution companies.
Really, do you think proprietary friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, who ship proprietary software (e.g. firmware and applications) would put extra effort into making download and installation of proprietary drivers as easy as possible if they could just ship them instead?