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Now that distribution mostly default to wayland and pipewire I feel that the linux desktop is in a solid place.
>no forethought given to apps that need global keybinds
Please see this issue for a description of some of the current challenges with getting global shortcuts to work: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/624
>no forethought to screen capture
The plan for a while has been to put screen capture in Pipewire, this is already working for apps that support it.
In any case, X11 also does not have any forethought in relation to hotkeys or screen capture. Technically it has no API for either of those, it has APIs that allow all applications to intercept all keys, and to allow all applications to read the contents of any window. Those APIs can be used to do hotkeys and screen capture in a rudimentary and somewhat broken way but they are not ideal. Just copying those (or an API that looks like those) into Wayland would be an unwise idea.