Serious question, have you ever written any nontrivial code using Vulkan? Everyone I know who's ever coded using Vulkan has found it unpleasant, and even Khron

Serious question, have you ever written any nontrivial code using Vulkan? Everyone I know who's ever coded using Vulkan has found it unpleasant, and even Khronos is considering a higher level API (more along the lines of Metal) because Vulkan is just too hard to use.