Yes, but there is an argument to be had that sole ownership and lack of design-by-committee is exactly why NVIDIA can put out better APIs. Money and proximity

Yes, but there is an argument to be had that sole ownership and lack of design-by-committee is exactly why NVIDIA can put out better APIs. Money and proximity to hardware development would be the competing factors, and normally I'd like to pin the attribution on them, but there's just one small problem: I've been on a bunch of committees and they have pushed my estimation of typical committee dysfunction to extraordinary levels.