You could make an entire 2D game using the SDL API without OpenGL/vulkan.
Minecraft essentially only uses GLFW (and now SDL3) to create the window and accept input. The game itself is essentially coded in raw OpenGL (and now vulkan).
Are they going to do that? If not, that's not the reason they're doing this either
You can make an entire 3d game using SDL3 as well, without opengl or vulkan, using the new GPU API!
Minecraft essentially only uses GLFW (and now SDL3) to create the window and accept input. The game itself is essentially coded in raw OpenGL (and now vulkan).
Are they going to do that? If not, that's not the reason they're doing this either
You can make an entire 3d game using SDL3 as well, without opengl or vulkan, using the new GPU API!