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TBH, opengl has been improving in that respect. See, e.g., glTextureSubImage2D[1], which takes a pointer to the referred texture, unlike glTexSubImage2D.

1: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4/html/gl...

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Yes, I am aware of the direct state access extensions. It was a good step forward, but a bit too late. And it still applies only to GL objects like buffers, samplers, textures. For things like setting scissor test, blending, depth test/write, color masks, binding textures, you're back to the global state.

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