Brutkey

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The importance of appropriately putting emphasis on a subject avoids misplacing blame towards groups that have no control over a given situation. For example:

"Wayland has a lot of compatibility issues with XYZ"

This makes Wayland the subject of the sentence, and thus puts emphasis on Wayland. This implies that Wayland is the culprit, and thus the blame is misplaced on Wayland.

Wayland has existed for over a decade. Several entities with a large amount of customers have actively sabotaged Wayland development by the lack of involvement, including and especially NVIDIA. Sure, these companies are now involved with the ecosystem, but for the longest time they have refused to properly support Wayland, worked against Wayland by implementing their own "solutions", or by doing absolutely nothing, which slowed down progress for so many years.

So the proper way to phrase this is "XYZ has a lot of compatibility issues with Wayland". This makes XYZ the subject and thus puts emphasis on that, rather than Wayland.

This is very similar to putting emphasis on Linux when making a statement about hardware compatibility: "Linux doesn't work well with XYZ" — no, likely XYZ doesn't work well with Linux, not the other way around. Most of the time, the hardware is the one at fault for not properly supporting the Linux drivers.