[CaptainOfCoit]

One individual doesn't suffer from the problem of being pulled in multiple different directions by multiple people. A company is not typically led by one person "dictator-style" but instead groups of people who try to make decisions together, sometimes not agreeing.

[smallmancontrov]

Sure, but I don't think this is "too many cooks in the kitchen," I think it's the opposite: hardware companies tend to be structurally incapable of spending as much as they should on software because everyone in the hardware space has the same bias. The economics of the space select for it in the short term and against it in the long term, creating the neverending foot-gun party we observe.