Wayland does not support screen savers: it does not have any provision that allows screen savers to even exist in any meaningful way. If you value screen savers, that’s kind of a problem.
Adding screen savers to Wayland is not simply a matter of “port the XScreenSaver daemon”, because under the Wayland model, screen blanking and locking should not be a third-party user-space app; much of the logic must be embedded into the display manager itself. This is a good thing! It is a better model than what we have under X11.
But that means that accomplishing that task means not just writing code, but engaging with whatever passes for a standards body or design committee in the Wayland world, and that is… how shall I put this… not something that I personally feel highly motivated to do.
a visible locking screen saver on idle workstations is a requirement in many places.
AFAIK screen locking is already possible and widely implemented; it’s just being handled by the display manager (? I think that that’s the right term). It’s just that you can’t install anything that provides a fancy animation, if I understand correctly.
Yes and my screen locks when the screen turns off, don’t need useless graphics bouncing around.
I’m pretty sure automatic locking is part of most Wayland implementations. Maybe the Sway/Hyprland style barebones tiling implementations don’t have it, but I don’t think it’s a problem for the desktop environments you’d use in a workplace with such requirements.