[WAHa_06x36]

OpenGL absolutely is a legacy API today. It has been an awful impedance mismatch to modern GPUs for about a decade now.

[pnako]

It's a high-level API. It went through N generations of graphics hardware for 30 years (40 if you consider IRIS GL).

[WAHa_06x36]

And it became increasingly less of a good fit with each one. By now, it is ridiculously mismatched to the task it needs to perform.

Just leave it to die.