i guess there's something to be said about wanting to retire and just winding down and closing up shop rather than selling the company and having your legacy potentially turn to shit under new ownership and policy?
it's been a collaboration between kde, system76/cosmic, wlroots, weston, and gamescope/valve all deciding to play ball with each other and decide on universal standards together and gnome mostly not deciding to take part.
I mean, as it stands GNOME do what GNOME do. I'm not one to ask too many questions because this shit is hard lmao. As long as my stuff works (and it do work)
I mean their XWayland Scaling implementation is working so far, it's just gotta be merged into stable which GNOME tends to only do after A LOT of testing
gnome has a strong vision and is inflexible about it. you either like their vision or you don't. the nice thing is there's plenty of choice in the sea of linux.