I don't disagree. It would take a concerted shared will in an industry that still views, perhaps rightly, platform lock-in as a competitive advantage. Open source initiatives are great, but I feel that they're weaker than a bigcorp (benevolent?) dictatorship would be at picking a direction and moving in it.

When the headline comes out that DirectX13 will be a layer on top of Vulkan, then maybe it's a sign that the world is ready :)