I think that Metal / WebGPU is just at the right abstraction level for a modern 3D API. It's like a successor to D3D11 (which is a mighty fine 3D-API). Vulkan and D3D12 are really not a lot of fun to work with. I'd rather maintain an thin API wrapper on top of 3 different 3D-APIs at the complexity level of D3D11 or Metal, instead of having to maintain a single wrapper for D3D12 or Vulkan (and you need to support multiple 3D APIs anyway, since none of them exists on all relevant platforms). But that is strictly IMHO, I guess there's also people who enjoy working in D3D12 or Vulkan ;)
