I prefer it! It's definitely more verbose, but as someone who doesn't do graphics usually, I find it fits my mental model a little better.

I tried to build this using WebGL before WebGPU was publicly available, but WebGL is very tailored to certain workflows and I didn't make much progress. It really felt like I was using the wrong tool for the job. Maybe I'm just too much of a noob... though I did manage to build it with WebGPU after all haha.