I've also never had a Wayland crash...
I use the HD Graphics 530, an integrated graphics card from about 10 years ago. So far, I haven't had any problems using it with Wayland.
LTS distros will still have a few years of support for Xorg, so I assume its end won't cause an immediate problem.
Ubuntu 24.04 still has an Xorg session; standard support ends in 2029, and with Ubuntu Pro, support extends to 2034.
From what I can tell he really is the goat. Helped me more times than I could count and that's just from reading posts of him helping someone else.
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The big issue for me is users with the need for accessibility are being left behind as Wayland has nothing to offer such users if distributions drop Xorg. Additionally screen recording and screen sharing and video-conferencing is not possible with Wayland.
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As far as I know it is included in Wayland now. But of Course this has to land in the Desktop Environments, too.
That still does not address accesibility.
How far this is, I don't know.
Modestly. It has improved but screensharing is still hit or miss. This is because it is not in Wayland protocol, but adapted in using extensions of desktop portal and pipewire.
For "legacy" screensharing like Slack Conferencing or other electron apps, it must fall back to XWayland, running an X-Server behind Wayland to handle.
Patchy, spotty and hacky.
I hope Xorg sticks around.
Using Xorg is mandatory for my Nvidia drivers to work (and to avoid inoperable flickering nonsense coming out of suspend when I try to login across four different laptops from 3 different brands by hard disabling Wayland in the gdm3 config). Probably Nvidia's fault, but it's across 4 different generations of cards from a 940M, a 1050, a 3080Ti, to a 4070. There's no argument for old or new here. I just get a hard "no" from Wayland.
The 2 old Macs are fine on Wayland though.
All Zorin 17.3 core (not asking for help, I'm all good on Xorg: just stating my case for Xorg being apparently superior in terms of compatibility on a multitude of Nvidia GPU laptops across the ages).
So yeah, no Wayland for me, thanks.