i think work must be done by shader developers. vulkanmod has a great potential, and even its can`t be compatible with generic OpenGL(Optifine/Iris) shaders, there would be own pool of shader developing, maybe we could see new authors, or old who would port their shaders on VulkanMod

@SolDev69 sodium vulkan this has realtime raytracing

check the iris discord for more details
https://discord.com/channels/774352792659820594/774354933436645478/1038852605478187193