People were teasing the idea of a good-enough Metal-like API on top of Vulkan that takes care of the pain points since the early days (most notably this article

People were teasing the idea of a good-enough Metal-like API on top of Vulkan that takes care of the pain points since the early days (most notably this article: https://aras-p.info/blog/2015/03/13/thoughts-on-explicit-graphics-apis/ https://aras-p.info/blog/2015/03/13/thoughts-on-explicit-gra...), but so far, nothing has materialized.