Not really ironic. The GNOME team are mostly paid by the same company as the Wayland team (and the Flatpak team and the OStree team and the systemd team) and that team wants to replace X.org with its own new tool.

I said "ironically" because it also works much better than X remoting, or for that matter VNC. Which isn't really new, it's just amusing to see this finally acknowledged by desktop Linux.