Yep... You nailed it. It really bums me out. There's a lot you can do with simple 90s era graphics programming while still using the newer APIs, but you'll hit

Yep... You nailed it. It really bums me out. There's a lot you can do with simple 90s era graphics programming while still using the newer APIs, but you'll hit bottlenecks very quickly, or run into architectural issues as soon as you want to implement modern rendering techniques.