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X11 is being actively developed, last commit on xserver was 7 hours ago, and it will probably continue being worked on for a long time
Yep that'd be Wayland devs maintaining XWayland, which is part of the x.org codebase. There are no "X11 devs", they're the ones who started Wayland to get rid of that bowl of spaghetti!
We even disagree on what "dead development" means. :D ( Edit: To add a bit substance to my reply, minimal maintenance is not actively developed in my books. )
And almost all (if not all of it) is done by redhat engineers which will drop it when rhel 8 or 9 (whichever one still supports xorg) goes end of life.