No, transparency is actually quite rare in games, for pretty much this exact reason, and outside of games is rare to have more than one or two layers of transpa

No, transparency is actually quite rare in games, for pretty much this exact reason, and outside of games is rare to have more than one or two layers of transparency. The typical method is to draw all opaque objects first with zbuffering enabled. Then sort all the remaining trasnparent objects by depth and draw them from back to front