What forces you to use Wayland? Just curious because usually people are forced to stay on X.
The monitor port on my Thinkpad X1 Gen2 does not work under X. It works with Wayland. It's probably because on Gen2 that port is driven by the NVidia card. On the Gen 3 it's driven by the Intel GPU.
By the by, Wayland is a definite improvement on X. It's noticeably faster, and handles scaling better. The lack of network transparency (eg, running gvim with X) doesn't matter because everything still uses X under the hood (via XWayland). I gather they have a workable solution or network transparency now, so the future is looking bright. It's just Gnome3 that's the problem.
I don't know whether it's a coincidence, but Gnome3 copied OSX's look and feel, and systemd copied OSX's launchd, and most of the development of both happens in the same company. There is even a launchctl. If they love OSX then fine, but I would have been happier if that had of scratched that itch by buying themselves Mac's rather than trying to copy them.
I'm forced to use Wayland on my laptop, which sadly means I forced to use Gnome 3. To those saying "try it": I do, it's just not for me. It's choices are just plain weird.
To explain, what a good UI looks like largely depends on display size. On a tiny display like a phone there is no space for window decorations or a menu bar going across the entire screen, let alone a 2nd application window. Which is why iOS and Android have no window decorations at all, and often no dedicated menu button either.
Increase the screen real estate a bit, and a dedicated menu bar that makes all functions faster to reach becomes an affordable luxury along with a task switcher to reduce flipping between applications a single click. Hell, you might even allow the user to display multiple windows. That's what the Apple desktop has, and it made sense back in the day when they were first released.
Scale it up further, and running multiple windows on the same display starts making sense. If you do flipping between application now needs zero clicks. And now you can see the app and it's help screen at same time, and you can happily drag and paste from one window to another. With so much space you can easily afford to give each app it's own menu bar, borders that permit scaling and moving of windows, and more besides.
Gnome3 was introduced as a desktop window manager when we were very firmly in the era of HD displays. And for reasons I suspect I'll never don't understand, they chose the same layout the first Mac's used 30 years previously and even more infuriatingly pressed you at every change it got into maximising your window to occupy the entire display - almost as if it was dealing with a phone sized screen.
As soon as mint / cinnamon / lxqt moves to Wayland, I'm gone.