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Vulkan is on Android, Direct X is on Windows, Metal is on macOS and iOS.

I don't see anything wrong with it. Just like Windows did't adopt Vulkan. And that is assuming Vulkan is good in the first place.

And most of the gaming development are now done with Middlewares like Unity and Unreal. The way I see it, more and more people will develop with Middlewares in mind, those API won't be touched by a shrinking amount of developers.

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Vulkan runs on Windows.

And Linux.

And macOS. And iOS.

And anybody who is not a masochist and cares about compatibility across all those platforms will use Unity or Unreal or one of the lesser-known others.

DirectX 12 is the easiest of these APIs to use, and it's not exactly fun.

Exclusively with the use of MoltenVK, which uses Metal under the hood...

Not exclusively -- gfx-portability (https://github.com/gfx-rs/portability) is another option.

Wasn't aware of that, thank you!

Only on classical Win32 mode.

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