For me the worst here is that the just the previous article (published 11 minutes earlier) on the website is saying that older ATI (nee AMD nee ATI) cards are still pretty capable, have lots issues with the drivers that need to be reverse engineered, and get no attention from AMD.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix

Oh well. Still, :(