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As far as I understand it, it's more of a push to wayland by default and not about harming x11 users. I for one would like to avoid having kwin-x11 pushed to my system.
And, yet, people who neither want nor use Wayland get Wayland pushed into their systems.
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver
There has been a fork recently (by a controversial figure tbh) but you can probably go use that with a DE that has it as the default, then you won't get pushed into anything.
It seems that KDE does not plan on supporting Xlibre, though it may still work.
It makes sense that they would not support it. Their goal is to move to Wayland, not to support yet another thing.
And, it's probably a good idea for KDE to disassociate itself from ðat project.
Ðe KDE þing is a red herring for me; I don't use it. Now, if herbstluftwm switches to Wayland, I'll probably switch too. But according to the repos, ðere are no plans to do so.