> OpenGL has less friction here I've never thought this, in fact I find the OpenGL API makes things harder to understand because of it's basically massive hidd

> OpenGL has less friction here I've never thought this, in fact I find the OpenGL API makes things harder to understand because of it's basically massive hidden state machine that it has going on. For beginners I agree to recommend using Unity/Unreal to understand all the stages of a game engine, as there is just so many layers these days. Actually using Vulkan is something that comes much later, as a side project to learn how it works, or when you're in a company which has the resources to build it's own engine.