Ooof, I've seen some bad takes but this one is a really bad one. DXVK is currently only used as a drop in replacement for DX9 games. DX10 has been forgotten (t

Ooof, I've seen some bad takes but this one is a really bad one. DXVK is currently only used as a drop in replacement for DX9 games. DX10 has been forgotten (thank god), DXVK's D3D11 implementation is not good, and more and more games are going on D3D12 which affords a hell of a lot of control. Additionally, DirectX is not just a graphics API, it's also sound (XACT and XAudio2), ray tracing (DXR), Input handling (XInput & DirectInput), CUDA-like calculations (DirectCompute), storage handling (DirectStorage), etc. Most of these have either an alright equivalent (DXR has an equivalent in Vulkan with extensions, and that's about it, and Valve's input implementation is _really good_, but it's not a usable API as far as I know.) or a wildly inferior alternative (at least for the PC space that is Windows/Linux/MacOS). D3D12 also is one of the drivers of new GPU programming features in the PC space (once again, the console side of things is a bit weirder, although MS does bring some lessons in from the Xbox side of things), while Vulkan is kind of stuck doing everything as extensions that may or may not be available, and Metal is still a piece of shit. So, yeah, no, DirectX is far from irrelevant.