It's a matter of principle. Some people don't want cores that you can't gather insight into how you are spending/wasting their time. I'm not a direct customer

It's a matter of principle. Some people don't want cores that you can't gather insight into how you are spending/wasting their time. I'm not a direct customer of Intel or AMD, but in general I would trade off clock speed/cores/cost for insight into what my software is doing.