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X11 WMs as plugins for a wayland compositor?
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It's possible to do but also probably not worth the amount of effort to reimplement all of those protocols only for super old WMs that don't have a Wayland equivalent. None of them are particularly complex, so It's probably easier to just port those to wlroots than implement the compatibility, and it's an opportunity to make an API or library to make it easy to write WMs.
Creating a wayland compositor based in wlroots is much more work than an X11 window manager. And then there's quite a bit of work to keep up with new Wayland protocols.
But I personally don't think there's a need for more compositors, since the existing compositors do support all kinds of tiling.
E.g. river has custom layout providers, which allows for creating completely custom tiling behaviour. There's even a hyprland plugin which implements river-layout-v3.