This is an interesting one. Nvidia felt that there was a gap in the market for an FPS recorder, that worked outside of their graphics card software, Nvidia GeForce Experience. As the Nvidia GeForce Experience already comes with a turn on and off FPS counter for your games, but only works with Nvidia cards. And so for that part we would have to agree, there is a need for an independent FPS recorder. As it would be nice to have one reliable, open-source choice for recording in game benchmarks that everyone could gravitate towards as a standard. It seems Nvidia's new FrameView is a step towards achieving this, although it doesnt appear to be open source.