My understanding is that Vulkan is specifically supposed to be as low level as possible in order to facilitate device manufacturers creating new hardware and to

My understanding is that Vulkan is specifically supposed to be as low level as possible in order to facilitate device manufacturers creating new hardware and to give developers fine grained control over things if they want it. I believe the stated strategy is to let third party middleware handle the higher level abstractions so that different approaches that appeal to different people can coexist. This also theoretically reduces driver complexity and thus (hopefully) bugs. I have absolutely no idea if this is actually a good idea, or if it's working out in practice. In case anyone wants to poke around the ecosystem: (https://github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan https://github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan).