The same what? Switch to Qt and RPM was in Meego. Mer continues it. Nothing new in this aspect. You are several years late to complain.

@wayland vs X11
There is still the issue of network transparency. While not really that important in out case (mobile/embedded application development), it still stands that it is something X11 has and Wayland is lacking so far.

Yes, this has been already discussed elsewhere quite heavily and yes, it should be possible to do it with Wayland using pixel scrapping.

But it still stands there is no such implementation in the current Wayland/Weston implementation.

Network transparency use-cases
From personal experience these work just fine on local (100 Mb Ethernet) network & are quite handy(as the application context stays on one machine, but the application can be used on many other machines):

• graphical terminal emulators
• Geany (wrote my bachelors thesis like this) and other editors
• Thunderbird
• Inkscape
• modRana

Oh, I am not complaining. I am talking about the behavior here - one has something that is working fine (or almost), but he throws it through the window because of some blurry reasoning. Instead of polishing what he already has. The point is - IMO it is wrong to make such a major change when you are on a hurry to release a device, as it will delay that release. No matter how good you are.

The reference to GTK and .deb was in that regard - Nokia did the same when all of us were expecting the step 5/5. And we all know what the result was/is.

Yeah but they've only gone this way because the Sailfish_Alliance (remember that, WTF ever happened to it!?) has taken so freaking long to get off the ground.
If they had stopped "fart-arsing" around MONTHS ago, both projects could be working on the same UI/UX now, or very soon...

What was working fine, you mean Harmattan? Jolla has no way to reuse that, since it's closed (Nokia controlled). Jolla is using what's available - Mer + Nemo which are open and which use Qt and RPM all the way since Meego was using them. Therefore Jolla didn't throw anything out - on the contrary, they are building on the accumulated effort. There is really no novelty here. Mer exists for a while already, basically even before Meego was officially abandoned.

I really hope they aren't going to use Wayland based on libhybris with bionic drivers in their own handset.

Seriously it sounds more like people want X11 to tell others "hey I can run foobar X11 app on my phone" even if that X11 app will be a pointless toy cause it is unusable on a phone anyway.