Comment by pjmlp

1 hour ago

All commercial APIs have this moat, which is why other than Carmack famously advocating for OpenGL, the large majority of other devs never cared, they implement an API agnostic engine, use the best API for each platform, and move on with the rest of the game.

Even Carmack later admitted that DirectX had become much better than OpenGL, but they weren't going to change given the studio culture.