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Make GLES3.0 the baseline

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
java

Research direction

No files, entry points, or tests are named. Start by locating the engine's GLES2 and GL<3.2 support paths, then map the affected rendering code and test coverage. Done means all capabilities below GLES3.0 are removed and the engine consistently uses GLES3.0 as its baseline.

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Description

Refactoring and Cleanup

We should remove entirely everything below GLES3.0 capabilities, making GLES3.0 the lowest common denominator for the engine.

Supporting all those old APIS (ie, GLES2, GL<3.2) makes the code a lot more complex, hard to maintain and convoluted for no real benefit other than supporting very old devices that we can't event test reliably.

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