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Apple did supply Nvidia the tools needed to develop drivers for pre-Mojave OS but we have no idea if Apple provided Nvidia the Metal compliant driver tools and documentations for Mojave. They probably did or did not but Nvidia refused to act on it or dragging their feet. We don't know but we do know that Apple pointed finger at Nvidia and Nvidia pointed finger at Apple.
Well think about this as why Nvidia had to release new driver for EVERY major and minor macOS updates? They could release a driver that will work for all minor updates. So that tells me that Nvidia need permission or signed kext from Apple so Apple has more control on this.
The fact that Nvidia releases new revisions of their drivers for each new macOS release is a design choice.
SmallTree, Sonnet, etc don't release new revisions of their drivers for things like NICs because they choose not to.