I feel like Wayland should be useful, as I solely use Wayland. Is the package indeed no longer used? Or is this a bug/error?
When I updated my Xfce system this morning, this package was removed. Haven’t checked on my Wayland-based systems yet. According to the package’s required-by list, there’s almost nothing that depends on it.
It’s not an orphan, it’s still in the Arch extra repo (last updated on 2025-10-10).
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Run pactree -r qt6-wayland
Most probably nothing is dependent on it in your system anymore.
They mean it in the sense that it was installed on the system as a dependency and is no longer required by any package on the system - making it an orphan.
You can see using various tricks, such as the wayback machine, that it was not that long ago required by various KDE things including gwenview and kwin and more;
But no longer.
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It is indeed a bit confusing that
- installed packages which aren’t required as a dependency of other packages
are called orphans … and
- packages within the repositories with no active maintainer
are flagged as orphans within the package database.
pacman -Qdt lists essentially the unrequired packages, which includes the optional dependencies as well if I’m not mistaken.
Well, theres actually no such thing.
There is in the officially unsupported AUR though. 
( I still agree it is objectively confusing to use the same term for both cases. )
As written its things not required at all.
It needs an extra t for the things that are only optional.
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For what it is worth being on plasma I don’t have it installed at all (qt6-wayland) , but it looks like it is required by deepin and/or telegram desktop.
It was required by gwenview-25.08.1 .. but, as noted above, that dep has since dropped.
That was likely the reason folks are seeing the difference recently.
I can also attest to a Plasma desktop seeming to function fine without it.