Digital Foundry has a sponsored video interview for The Surge 2 that goes into extensive detail about modern graphics programming, and it rules

getting some perspective on the practical benefits of vulkan is neat because it helps me understand that issue I had the other day: why are only d3d12/vulkan games reaching 4k60

it turns out, bindless textures and unlimited descriptor sets is extremely helpful for instanced drawing, which is of course heavily used by modern games for environment detail; it means The Surge 2 can draw all of its surface decals onto the G-Buffer simultaneously in a single instanced draw call, avoiding ALL of the penalty of rebinding textures between sets of 8 unique decals

elaborating on this: if you're only able to draw 8 unique decals at a time, you're locking the entire G-buffer to do this draw, which means the next 8 have to wait on the previous 8, creating a serial bottleneck. instanced draw + all textures available in the pipeline = the GPU can draw all of these decal meshes on all the attachments at the same time potentially in parallel. since a single draw is exponentially more expensive at higher resolutions, the parallelization helps A LOT