For those of you playing along at home, this code is in fact totally valid. Remember when I swore blind that gfx.drawTexture() has been well-tested and shouldn't be the issue here"? Yeah, it was totally the issue there.
I was buffering vertices to draw without actually flushing them through a glDrawElements() call. Whoops.
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