[zanny]

I don't think its that bad now. We are somewhat limited by SPIR-V, but we now have the capabilities to write our own graphics APIs and shader languages that can compile to Vulkan /OpenCL and SPIR-V and go on from there. It is nothing close to as bad as the goliath of OpenGL hegemony.

[xigency]

I might not be as qualified to talk about this since I am not actually working on the leading edge, but I know from past experience that development hasn't been pleasant.