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From my experience, the main pain point with Linux GPU drivers is for standard "desktop" tasks, like not breaking when Ubuntu switches to Wayland... A server designated for GPGPU applications just need the basic configuration to get the Nvidia toochain for CUDA up and running

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It'd be nice if their CUDA libraries worked with the open source "nouveau" library. All the driver does is init the card and do some resource management; all the secret sauce is in the CUDA libraries.

The CUDA compiler would have to emit something loadable by Nouveau. The tools around CUDA have several hooks into the drive, especially for performance tracing.

Wishes don't pay the bills. Where's the incentive?

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