The way it was done currently seems like a thinly veiled TWIMTBP/Gaming Evolved title, only instead of having specific options that are essentially hardware vendor exclusive the entire base game. The way this release has created the title features hitches specific to an entire vendor with owners of the other hardware trying to guess what to disable to get the performance that they should be getting.
This essentially boils down to "AMD and Intel can't be bothered to work on their OpenGL drivers so no one should be allowed to make software that uses OpenGL." That is a ridiculous stance. Pressure should be put on vendors to update their drivers, and not on devs to stop developing using it.
Also this game was in development long before Vulkan was even released. The fact that their Vulkan branch isn't even ready yet should tell you all tou need to know.