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That stuff has been obsolete for quite a while as the general 3D capabilities are more than enough to saturate all the GPU's memory bandwidth.

If it's a VESA standard and still supported it might be useful as a fallback for hardware that doesn't have its own driver.

Edit: But actually, I couldn't find references to anything similar besides VBE/AF which even when current got almost no support directly in hardware, so folks had to resort to hardware-specific DOS TSR's. I'm not sure if there's anything newer than that.

GPU manufacturers stopped putting 2D functionality in their chips.

The basic display interface used by UEFI and low level boot loaders these days it's called GOP - Graphics Output Protocol. It replaced VESA.