ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on.

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In theory yes. In practice most X11 applications can be ran using Xwayland as a compatibility layer

Additionally any application using a GUI toolkit (like kde, qt or gtk etc) only needs to to update to a version that has native Wayland support. Which means most applications already support it. At least if they don't use any X11 APIs directly (which is not that common).

Not really a GUI toolkit but many many games use SDL and they also gain wayland support with a library update