OpenGL as an API no longer maps well to actual hardware. The important feature Vulkan brings is simple parity with hardware, thereby, efficiency. Further, utilizing new (read: not actually new, but not reasonable in OpenGL), GPU capabilties are what make new features possible. Vibrant Visuals had a hard requirement of the renderer being updated. From what I've seen, it will be coming alongside the renderer update.
The deobfuscation of the byte code is done as of an update or two ago. I'm not a modder for minecraft so I don't know concrete details but I know its available.
I remember reading this article a while back. It may be partially responsible for me starting my own game project in a custom engine. Also the last 10 years of my professional life have been spent wrangling Unity and Unreal, and, well, I just didn't want to do it anymore.
So I narrowed my game concept to be more stylized, no photorealism, no human characters, etc, in order to make something both unique, and deliverable.
Its inspiring to see others doing the same thing for similar reasons. Maybe I'm not completely crazy after all :)
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