I very much agree - and I think some people misunderstood what I was trying to say too - that was that I don't think switching to SYCL would fix any of the problems that rocm currently has.

I personally feel many of the problems with rocm are due to lack of investment and management priority - there is no "technical" solution to that as a problem. And swapping out parts of that stack will just exacerbate those problems are now they need to rebuild everything from scratch with their insufficient resources.