alt Hacker NewsWhat do you mean nobody wants to improve X11? There were developers with dozens of open merge requests with numerous improvements to X11 that were being actively ignored/held back by IBM/Red Hat because they wanted Wayland, their corporate project, to succeed instead.
Reviewing PRs and merging them requires great effort, especially in case of a non-trivial behemoth like X. Surely if all these merge requests were of huge value, someone could have forked the project and be very happy with all the changes, right?
Not having enough maintainers, and some design issues that can't be solved are both reasons why X was left largely unmaintained.