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That is a very significant step. I wonder if this applies to Wayland users as well or if this was already a non-issue.
Clients can't randomly snoop onto what others are doing (e.g.: record keystrokes while on background).
There's still _some_ attack surface on Wayland, but less than there was on Xorg.
BTW: Note sure if this feature was implemented for Wayland, but it sounds like it wasn't.
One of the selling points of wayland is that it does not.
EDIT: See child replies. I am outdated info.
XWayland definitely doesn't run as root, but still has a lot of access to any X applications that you are running.