Comment by baq

This is true.

Microsoft and GPU companies (nvidia, amd, intel mostly, but there obviously were many others) collectively spent literally billions (not a typo - think about the engineer-hours on these multi-million-LOC code bases) on getting the windows graphics driver model mostly right. The amount of tooling is staggering and the fact that a crash in the driver most of the time just causes the screen to blink for a second instead of a bsod is amazing.