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Ah apologies, you're right - I was tired and read things wrong.

But I suspect "GL issues" (i.e., GL API stability) is being mixed together with e.g. mesa issues if mesa is being bundled inside the app/in a "flatpak SDK" instead of being treated as a system library akin to what you would do with DirectX.

Mesa contains your graphics driver and window system integrations, so when the system changes so must mesa change - but the ABI exposed to clients does not change, other than new features being added.