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It doesn't matter what backend you use as long as it suits your needs. At this point nobody should use any frontend which uses xorg as its backend.
Edit. As user KSP_Atlas very fairly pointed my mistake about Nvidia, I stand as corrected.
What about nvidia? It's not like nvidia support is good yet
Very good point and totally my mistake. Luckily Nvidia promised Wayland support at Q4 of 2023.
Wayland also has much slower results when playing games or rendering. Sometimes up to a 20% reduction compared to X.
I don't like using X, but Wayland isn't ready for power users yet. I don't think people generally would notice the difference.