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I think his conclusion is valid; compilers can now handle register assignment and other boilerplate pretty well (Metal does this superbly and SPIR-V seems very good).

My only qualm is that he treats these aspects that he deems outdated as unnecessary, which is just not true. For a long time there was no other alternative. Introducing High Level languages for programmable shading was a huge deal and it actually decreased a lot of complexity. In reality it simplified a lot of stuff that was quite difficult before GLSL/HLSL came along.

He seems to be making some kind of rallying call for change but the next generation is already here. We'll have to keep supporting that old approach for a while longer but the problem really has been solved (to some extent).

Also, old person rant: "Back in my day, we only had 8 register combiners and 4 blend states. And we liked it!"