[squarefoot]

Bad engineering (way overpowered board for the job), bad research (plenty of cheaper similar boards that do the same thing), bad economics as they chose the only supplier that doesn't sell bare chips, so that developing a cheaper personalized board is not doable. It was the wrong tool for the job since the beginning, and now it's also the overpriced nearly unobtanium link that inflates their production costs and can could bringthe product to an end..