What it is is showing Apple that OpenGL matters to those developers. It is likely more a case of priority shifting, if not enough people request it it is deemed

What it is is showing Apple that OpenGL matters to those developers. It is likely more a case of priority shifting, if not enough people request it it is deemed a lower priority. Until you make it known en masse it can't be pointed to by engineers as needing to be worked on. Would it be ideal if Apple did everything HN commentators wanted? Well no, most of the requests here can be a bit ludicrous. But if you're a developer on Apple and you do not file a bug report specifying the need for up to date OpenGL, complaining here isn't productive. I will leave the hyperbole about "far from perfect" aside as all human endeavors are far from perfect and hate the platform wars that proliferate here.