[theMMaI]

Maybe the problem for Intel is complacency exactly because there is this expectation of a bailout when things don't go to plan.

While other hardware companies got lean operationally and employee wise Intel did not. The ex-Intel employees all paint somewhat the same picture of bureaucracy, layers of (poorly managed) dependencies and reliance on paradigms that worked during late 90s / early 2000s.

If you followed sources like semiaccurate the situation at Intel is not surprising either, they've been reporting on issues there since their inception.