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I hear that river wants to try to sort of become the Xorg of wayland (in the sense of providing a simpler interface to build a window manager upon, without needing the whole compositor)
No, I do want a compositor that would be like Openbox, on wayland.
I think what he's saying is that there might be more options coming for stacking compositors (if they haven't been created already) since the new River framework makes it easier to create them
Instead of downvoting me, maybe you could be more clear about what you want, and not take it out on the messenger if it turns out the exact thing you want doesn't exist lol. Build it yourself i guess.