@14nd, in regards to this opinion piece,
Indeed, the realities and absolute frustration of it are a big part of my decision to no longer show support for Zorin OS, which has also switched to Defaulting to Wayland and pressuring users to adopt the Developers status quo.
@Abdulhalim
Wayland operates differently from X, in which X manages using a server and Wayland depends on the compositor to manage these actions through a coupled API. This can dump the management onto the client-side, instead of the window management which actually does not simplify but complicates everything by allowing separate applications to handle things differently from each other (A bit like how Proton Applications will handle things differently from other applications causing inconsistency and confusion.
There is an application called wkill, however documentation on it is scarce and it is primarly used for Qt and Plasma desktop. It does work on Plasma...
In Gnome D.E. like Zorin OS, you can use alt+F2 and enter r to reload the desktop which will be similar to killing unresponsive applications.
These would be "similar workarounds" rather than alternatives-to...
While certainly we can all carry opinions that differ, having one persons opinions enforced on everyone else is demonstrated by this long list of reduced functionality and user controls that affects all users, not just those who may have had a preference.