I tried learning Vulkan a little more than a year ago and I have no desire to ever touch it again. It really bothers me that we're deprecating OpenGL and replacing it with something that's ridiculously hard to do anything simple (e.g. doing a spinning cube takes several hundred lines of code).
OpenGL was never "easy" but it was at least something a regular person could learn the basics of in a fairly short amount of time. You could go to any big book store, buy some intro to graphics programming book, and get some basic stuff rendering in an afternoon or two. I'm sure Vulkan is better in some regards but is simply not feasible to expect someone to learn it quickly.
Like, imagine the newest Intel/ARM/AMD chips came along and instead of being able to write C or C++, you're being told "We are dropping support for higher level languages so you can only write assembly on this now and it'll be faster because you have more control!" It would be correctly labeled as ridiculous.
OpenGL was never "easy" but it was at least something a regular person could learn the basics of in a fairly short amount of time. You could go to any big book store, buy some intro to graphics programming book, and get some basic stuff rendering in an afternoon or two. I'm sure Vulkan is better in some regards but is simply not feasible to expect someone to learn it quickly.
Like, imagine the newest Intel/ARM/AMD chips came along and instead of being able to write C or C++, you're being told "We are dropping support for higher level languages so you can only write assembly on this now and it'll be faster because you have more control!" It would be correctly labeled as ridiculous.