> I’d rather just spend the brain power on ditching OpenGL, rather than trying to continue working with this broken API

Is "this broken API" responsible for a library monkey patching?

Also, we are lucky that linux libraries generally don't use such hacks. That's really bad style of programming. Also legacy games probably would run just fine with a bitblt if they were running fine on older software.

Knowing the author it can only mean OpenGL/EGL and similar.

They ranted/vented about OpenGL sucking and DirectX being best thing since butter on toast was invented.