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I agree that Display Lists are bloated overkill, but why did they deprecate them before introducing a replacement for static geometry?
They were merely deprecated, display lists are still available for use. Deprecating them without providing an alternative is fine. If they had made them obsolete and completely removed them from the spec, that would have been a different story.
Expect a bunch of old GL features to be completely removed in the future, once the newer features have taken hold for a few iterations.