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No. X11 has been around since 1980's and it's basicly a puzzle of chewing gums glued together. It's not been in development for years now.
Wayland is much less code but the end result is still much better. Wayland is the future.
In case you didn't know, they're display compositors. Backends of the graphics.
I'm on fedora and Wayland kde breaks so often it's unusable
My current KDE Wayland exp is also no great, but I have an older Nvidia GPU too.
Unfortunately it's not really all that great on newer Nvidia GPUs either.