Unfortunately that looks like a wearable urinary bag.

I’ve been running native Wayland exclusively for ages. I disabled XWayland by running gnome-shell with the --no-x11 flag.

What makes you think I wasn’t?

I’m having a great time on GNOME, even without any extensions at all!

this is a false equivalence

I think it is really useful to be able to tell that someone has seen a message and recieved the information within, without them having to write a pro forma reply.

This really doesn’t have to be an issue, if your social circle has reasonable expectations and people aren’t insecure enough to guilt trip you because of it.