It’s worse than that because even once the hardware engineers have identified software as a deficiency and decide that they need to start hiring some software p

It’s worse than that because even once the hardware engineers have identified software as a deficiency and decide that they need to start hiring some software people, it’s the hardware people who will hire the software people to begin with. Will they wind up with good software people? Who knows! Worse, the hardware people will usually be calling the shots and won’t see past their BOM cost. Will the hardware get a decent CPU? Probably not!