You would be wrong. I work with guys who used to do SoC design for both Seagate and WD. This is how WD was able to jump to RiscV so quickly; they didn't have

You would be wrong. I work with guys who used to do SoC design for both Seagate and WD. This is how WD was able to jump to RiscV so quickly; they didn't have any suppliers they needed to negotiate with, and the market for CortexR style in order, single issue, fully pipelined real time cores is sort of a commodity.