I THINK that I remember marcan addressing this in one of his youtube interviews: This is actually what their plan is long term. That said in the short term it'

I THINK that I remember marcan addressing this in one of his youtube interviews: This is actually what their plan is long term. That said in the short term it's way easier to implement opengl, it gives them a simple way to explore the hardware, and it also makes it so that real people will be able to run desktop linux on apple silicon macs way sooner.