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The only one on your list I've ever touched is Weston.
Feel free to ignore me if you're married to that list but I'm a huge fan of Sway. I can't imagine ever switching. It's pretty much "i3: Wayland Edition".
I can see not wanting to use it because it's based on wlroots, though. The nonstandard wlroots extensions to the Wayland protocol are a bit controversial and have security implications. (Though no more security implications than X11, which I get doesn't inspire confidence.)
Hum never heard about the wlroots nonstandard extensions, always thought they are following the protocol word by word... Going to search for those security implications.
The really short version is that the Wayland designers are still debating how to best allow clients to do certain things like intercept key presses or take screenshots in a safe way. The makers of wlroots on which Sway is based got tired of waiting for a standard and safe way to do those things and added their own insecure and nonstandard APIs for allowing that.
That said, X11's way of doing those (and many other) things is if anything more insecure than wlroots' way.