It is up to AMD, Intel and Khronos to offer APIs and tools that are actually nice to use.

They have had about 15 years to move beyond C99, stone age workflows to compile GLSL and C99 with their drivers, no libraries ecosystem, and printf debugging.

Eventually some of the issues have been fixed, after they started seeing only hardliners would put with such development experience, and then it was too late.

Isn't there OneAPI with its huge ecosystem of tools, debuggers, etc?