I find it quite interesting that while vector instructions are present every other sort of "hardware level grouping" (wave, SIMD, thread) is hidden from the pro

I find it quite interesting that while vector instructions are present every other sort of "hardware level grouping" (wave, SIMD, thread) is hidden from the programmer. Why would vector instructions be the only thing the programmer ought to care about? I wonder if there's untapped potential in a GPU language which made all of those implicit classes explicit in code, now that we've sort of stabilized on them. It wouldn't allow you to do anything that you can't already do with clever optimizations and a profiler, but it could have the potential to make the optimizations clearer. In general I'm very curious as to why we don't have any new languages that are better aligned with current hardware. For some reason we collectively decided that it was more fun to make everything general, which is especially unfortunate considering the real world got increasingly homogeneous. Compiling to some intermediate language makes no sense when you're only ever going to run on x86 anyway.