Given that i have seen one driver work for a multitude of devices (like 20+ different brands of webcams, because they all use the same internals), i think i pre

Given that i have seen one driver work for a multitude of devices (like 20+ different brands of webcams, because they all use the same internals), i think i prefer the current method. The larger problem is the number of "winmodem" style devices. That do as little as possible in hardware, and everything else in the driver. And releasing source code is one thing, but companies like AMD are releasing the interface details that allow others to produce and maintain the driver. The problem there has been third party licenses and patents, particularly as GPUs do more than apply shaders to triangles (video codec acceleration being a big one).