sillysaurusx's comment goes on to acknowledge that the major graphics libraries (OpenGL and Direct3D) did a pretty good job of abstracting away/indirecting away

sillysaurusx's comment goes on to acknowledge that the major graphics libraries (OpenGL and Direct3D) did a pretty good job of abstracting away/indirecting away the architectural changes. As you indicate, the architectural changes were made for good reason, and translated to real improvements in performance/capabilities. If AI acceleration chips aren't able to offer similar API standardisation/stability then it's not the same as what happened with GPUs, which was sillysaurusx's point.