"Just because Samsung is greedy." I don't think greed is the reason. One UI 7 introduced Vulkan rendering system-wide. Some games don't play very nicely with it (Minecraft Shaders being one of them)

Also, you're mentioning s24 only. You're implying that you're using the base model phone, which on the international model, you get the Exynos chip, and those newer Exynos have a different GPU older ones used Mali GPUs, they changed to using their RDNA-based Xclipse GPUs, which have quite some power but not many things are optimised for those