Update 15th March 2025
It would seem that the ‘last straw’ for me was the dreadful ‘Bookworm 64-bit raspi OS’.
For existing projects, I’ve had to revert back to a so-called ‘legacy’ 32-bit version. At least there are ‘working’ versions of software I can actually use. I am NOT a ‘tinkerer’, I still develop software, and also write. I need something that ‘works’, not ‘might work when we fix it’.
Here’s a link that may interest, or even amuse, on the subject of Wayland. Wayland

Hi, Yes I’ve been here before, with comments regarding the ‘Pi-400’, the truly miserable quality of which was matched by Clive Sinclair’s BOS offerings some considerable time ago.
I have an early raspi board running ‘jessie’ which has given sterling service over many years hosting a local web server (wordpress) and a website interface to it.
Sad to say, every so-called ‘upgrade’ since, on other projects have reflected badly on the quality of the development. Upgrades fixed one problem and ‘broke’ code previously written.
Latterly. Raspberry Pi has become a ‘business’, with the typical mental mindset of ‘shove it out the door as fast as possible’, and ‘the users will find the bugs and fix them.’
The latest BAG OF SHIT ‘Bookworm 64-bit’ is nothing but that. Note I have not used my normal ‘polite’ abbreviation of ‘BOS’.
As the author of the very first language compiler for the BBC Micro, FORTH, and the same compiler on Acorn’s ARM 1, I’ve followed the ‘history’ very closely, and it has been a somewhat dreary ‘progress’ since.
Very recently, I did ‘burn’ a copy of ‘RISC OS’, a bad joke back then, and sat laughing at it. Almost nothing worked, as it had done on the old ‘Archie’.
Maybe Raspi Pi folks included it as a joke in their list of ‘alternatives’.
To be blunt the concept of ‘free’ software is blown out of the water, the cost in time (a very valuable commodity to me), frustration, et al, makes me give up.
I have two oldish Apple Macs, still giving fault-free performance, and will upgrade shortly. For now, Raspberry PI, it’s RIP.