I'm really surprised this got any fanfare at all from Apple. Kind of confirms a single person as the reason for their continual AI misses which feels weird for them.
Nah, ksec had a great post in a thread a few months ago about a number of senior execs Tim Cook has promoted to positions to which they're ill-suited. John Giannandrea was just one of many such people:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436174
An organization of Apple's size doesn't fail due to the mistakes of a single person, unless that person is the CEO.