[justherefortart]

Why are developers reinventing the wheel for each release (seemingly)?

The fix in my experience is to build a baseline between the low level framework and the UI, like a business layer in most web applications or the HAL in Windows.

I'm not a game developer though, so just my stab in the dark :-)

[zitterbewegung]

They do this though its called a video driver and a video game engine.