I do recommend writing some DSA-like helpers for OpenGL, its global state is annoying to wrangle and not that meaningful to the actual GPU. The tricky part of OpenGL is understanding when something is a bad API accident and when something is actually meaningful.

Texture bindings are a good example of something that came about mostly by accident, as they didn't want to break legacy code. So we went from "the texture" to "the current texture", and then had to introduce "the active texture" once multi sampling entered the picture.