this is a very old idea. ndiswrapper did this for network drivers back in 2003, and freebsd implements shim layers for linux graphics drivers, linux application

this is a very old idea. ndiswrapper did this for network drivers back in 2003, and freebsd implements shim layers for linux graphics drivers, linux applications, some solaris kernel modules (dtrace, firewall, others?). the main problem is that nowadays, modern simple hardware has mostly standardized on a fairly small set of APIs (e.g. SATA/SCSI/NVMe for the majority of disks, UVC for the majority of cameras), and modern complex hardware requires complex shims. see: the amount of work put into Linux graphics kernel APIs.