Unless I’m mistaken, X has never had proper color management support in the first place.

When is the last time you tried a Wayland DE? I can’t speak to them all, but Plasma for one has been in really good shape for basically everything a typical user might want to do with it for around a year now.

X11 versus Wayland isn’t some kind of holy war; Wayland was specifically designed as a successor protocol to the largely cobbled-together X and is objectively superior to it in most ways outside of accessibility.

The title is incorrect. The patches have been rebased against the 6.13 tree but have not yet been accepted or merged.