I realize that businesses have priorities and needs; but in my opinion the draft charter guards Apple Inc.'s business priorities above the excellence of the standard.

Specifically this passage:

A technology that does not follow a single native API, which reduces the difficulty of implementation on platforms that do not support the chosen native API.

Reads, to me, as:
"A technology that does not follow a single native API," -> A technology which forsakes Vulkan,
"which reduces the difficulty of implementation" -> to support
"platforms that do not support the chosen API" -> Apple Inc.'s lack of interest in implementing Vulkan.

I don't mean to be overly critical, but I don't think technical compromises are a healthy start to a community; and I can almost guarantee that having no standard native API will make the work of every independent implementation much harder. Considering the shading language alone, this is the difference between shipping SPIR-V, and defining yet another abstract shading IR or language, four or more separate implementations of it, a whole new set of codegen tools, and more performance overhead. That's a lot to commit to in one sentence.