I'm not going to lie. I see all these desktop environments steaming towards Wayland and all making progress at around the same time and the conspiracy part of my brain is thinking something is up. Personally I don't hate or love Wayland. I'll use whatever meets my needs. I don't see myself jumping to Wayland before Mate officially finishes with their adoption of it because I have yet to try a DE that I love as much as Mate.