Very well written. I get the sense that the reason we're all here now is that historically the people who use these APIs as client programmers have been somewhat bad at explaining what they want.
Rather: it's because the companies building the hardware have jealously guarded their machine languages, treating their drivers as a source of competitive advantage. We'd have fixed the problems ourselves years ago if we could, but GPU manufacturers like to keep it all locked up tight and secret, so we can't.
