[shmerl]

How is that a counter argument to anything? The need to support multiple APIs is not free. It's a tax on everything else.

[glaze]

You're right that it's not free. But compared to the whole game engine codebase size the renderer backend is usually not big.

[shmerl]

It is a waste of time that could be avoided. And exists only becasue of insistence on lock-in by the likes of Apple.