Sure, but what platforms ship with Vulkan support?
* Vulkan was a recommended API on android N+, which has ~35% device install (from first % stats that came up on google). However, the CDD doesn't require Vulkan to be present.
* Linux is it up to the distribution to include it, and it isn't currently required by any standard open source package. If your card isn't AMD or Nvidia, you do not have an option for vulkan support AFAIK.
* Windows it is something installed by the video card driver as part of their game support and not available across all cards
* Mac/iOS it is built on top of Metal and available as a free third party library for your app bundles
I'm sure people would prefer Apple lead the pack and embrace a new standard before the rest of the industry, but it doesn't really buy them anything with their Metal investment to be first adopter, and it is very Anti-Apple to want to cede that sort of control. Especially when nobody else is doing it.